Paul Everett Meschter

Paul Everett Meschter, of Collegeville, died at home on September 16, 2026. He was 75 years old. Paul was born to parents Eldon Everett Meschter and Doris Julia Winder, and grew up in Glenside and Ambler, PA. He attended Germantown Friends School for K thru 12, did his undergraduate work at Washington and Jefferson College, and earned a Master’s degree in Psychology at St. John’s University.

Paul spent his working life as a psychologist, focusing his practice on assisting students with learning differences and health impairments, to help them get the accommodations they needed at the post-secondary level and beyond. In addition to ADA documentation, he also provided independent school admissions testing, psycho-educational evaluations for school aged students with learning differences and developmental delays, consultations regarding early intervention and transition services, assessment of autistic spectrum disorders, and evaluation of gifted students.

Paul was an accomplished chef and avowed foodie who served for seven years as the President of the Culinary Society of Philadelphia, seeking out new restaurants and exploring international cuisine. He was also an avid photographer who specialized in large format macrophotograph of natural minerals & polished fossils, and two of his photographs were commissioned to hang in Philadelphia federal buildings. Paul’s other interests were collecting antique restaurant ephemera, menus and matchbooks, local historic preservation, and adventurous cooking. In his early career he enjoyed world travel to unusual places like the Gobi Desserts, Bhurma, Russia, and a trip down the Amazon with several of his good friends. Paul was also renowned for his holiday cookies, baking dozens of cookies from traditional Pennsylvania Dutch recipe and his own inventions to share with family and friends.

Paul is survived by his brother and sister-in-law, David Meschter and Susan Latham of Queens, NY, nephew Jacob Latham Meschter, and many cousins and friends.

Services are private at the request of the family.

Arrangements by the Cremation Society of Pennsylvania at King of Prussia.