BASILE- Leonard Kersten was born on October 23, 1926, in White River, South Dakota and died peacefully on March 8, 2026, at the Southwest Louisiana War Veterans Home in Jennings, Louisiana.
Services are scheduled for Thursday, March 12, 2026, at 2 p.m. at Ardoin’s Funeral Home Chapel in Basile. Rite of Committal will follow in the St. Augustine Mausoleum with Father Keenan Brown officiating....