Longtime Lafayette businessman, UL donor Mike Maraist dies

Subhead
At age 24 he was president of Acadiana Bank in Eunice
Mike Maraist, right, is shown in this 2017 photo with his mother, Gertrude “Mimi” Maraist, who died in 2021 at the age of 104.
Mike Maraist, a longtime Lafayette-area banker, businessman and owner of Le Triomphe Golf & Country Club in Broussard, has died. The longtime businessman whose $2.5 million donation to the Moody College of Business at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette provided for the Maraist Financial Services Lab had a history that spanned decades in the Lafayette region. It was thru Maraist’s…

Premium Content is available to subscribers only. Please login here to access content or go here to purchase a subscription.