Paul Max Wehrlin died peacefully on April 1, 2025, at the age of 94. Paul was born on October 28, 1930 in Englewood, NJ to Max and Mabel Wehrlin. He was raised in Ridgewood, NJ.

After graduating from Ridgewood High School in 1948, Paul attended North Carolina State University to study Textile Engineering. He served in the U.S. Army at a radar installation in Virginia during the Korean conflict.

Paul then joined his father and brother in the family textile business. In 1955, enroute to Europe on his first business trip, he met Svetlana Wassiljew, who was returning to Europe to resume her ballet career. They were married in Toronto, Canada seven months later.

Paul remained in the textile industry for many years, residing with his wife and two children in New Jersey, Connecticut, Germany, and his father’s native Switzerland. He later entered the seafood industry and moved to Cape Cod. He was a resident of Yarmouth Port for over 30 years.

Paul was an accomplished entrepreneur and traveled the world for both business and pleasure. He was an avid painter, enjoyed good food and wine as well as nature and the outdoors.

Paul is survived by his wife Lana of nearly 70 years, his son Paul and daughter Irina MacPhee and John, four grandchildren, three great grandchildren and many nieces, nephews and their children. He is predeceased by his parents, brother George, and sister Betty-Ann Bowen.

A private service for family and friends will be held at Hallett Funeral Home, 273 Station Ave., South Yarmouth on Tuesday, April 8 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. Interment will be at Woodside Cemetery in Yarmouth Port.

The Family wishes to thank the staff at Bourne Manor Skilled Nursing for their dedicated and compassionate care.

May your fond associations and identification with places where you have lived and have traveled as a family and independently remind you of brighter days shared together. Would you please accept my heartfelt sympathy for the profound loss of your beloved husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, and distinguished uncle as you cherish his qualities that you may embody?

Thinking of you on this day, a day to honor and celebrate his good life, his accomplishments, and all the he stood for.