Help Honor Paul R. Herrle's Life and Work

My father, Paul R. Herrle, passed away unexpectedly on April 12th, 2025 of sudden cardiac arrest. My father nor our family were prepared for this unimaginable loss, as he was only 57 years old and none of his affairs were in order. Leaving behind many who are lost without him.

A father of four, loving husband, grandpa, successful business owner, son, and beloved brother. He left behind disabled sons that don't understand a world without him. I sit here devastated as I tell my baby brother "Daddy is on vacation" but he knows something terrible has happened.

My dad had just retired this year from the carpenters union and continued working in an attempt to sell his businesses. He never got to enjoy retirement as my father wanted his children and family to have it all. He always reminded me that he worked so hard, so that I never had to.

During the Covid Pandemic- when employers laid off their employees- my father kept his workers on even if it meant sweeping the floors. He didn't let anyone go on unemployment, he took care of his workers so in turn they could take care of their families. That's the kind of man my father was and forever will be.

We have been waiting for the IRS for months and months. The (ERTC) known as the employee retention tax credit, is the refundable payroll credit for certain wages paid to employees through employers during the pandemic. My father could have put everyone on unemployment and not paid a dime out of his own pocket but that wasn't the man he was, he tried to do the right thing by the government, his contractors, and his workers. He had faith in the system and good karma.

Now my mom and dad's friends are now expected to run and close them down appropriately. We will need lawyers for this entire process of course, as my father is no longer with us to sign off on any of it.

It is so heartbreaking to watch my father work day in and out my entire life so that his family be taken care of and I am now left in a position to fight just to ensure everything is handled correctly. I am determined to keep his legacy alive. To take care of his boys, like I promised him I would. He always worried that I wouldn't be able to care for my disabled siblings and have an adequate life so he worked up until his last breath to ensure that we would be alright. He was an honorable man that not only took care of his family and loved ones but also his friends and workers, they all knew him as family.

This crowd fundraiser will help us with closing his businesses, mounting legal fees, funeral costs, accounting costs, court filings, and other legal-related expenses. We will be using some funds to hold a Memorial Service to be held in New York this summer.

If you knew my dad, then you knew how giving he was. I can remember my parents fundraising for special needs children my entire life. Anytime someone needed a job, a friend's dad, a family member, a neighbor, my dad gave them one. He always brought people who had nowhere else to go home for the holidays. If you needed help my father was always just one phone call away. He was an upstanding family man who took pride in his work. He believed there was more good than bad left on this earth, he saw the good in everyone. As this is a painful, yet so humbling experience, I am only trying to lay him to rest properly, the way he deserves. An attempt for us all to take care of him one last time the way he took care of so many others. It is so hard to try and amount the amazing man he was in just a few short paragraphs. It's hard to try and sum up anyone's life with so little words, any less my father.

To the best dad ever, we are forever grateful for everything you did for us & the time we had with you. If love could've kept you alive, you would've lived forever.

Thank you for your consideration & taking the time to read a little bit about my dad , Elaine Lavena Herrle