Longtime Lafayette businessman, UL donor Mike Maraist dies

By (not verified) on Friday, March 22, 2024
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, 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 donation …