 A grandson of his brother James, Jerry Schumacher, was a linebacker for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team and spent time with the Bears in 2004.Schumacher spent most of the rest of his life as a civil engineer for the City of Chicago, responsible for planning on the Deep Tunnel Project and others in the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.He also owned and operated Parkview Lanes Bowling Alley with two of his brothers, as well as a small farm in Pepin County Wisconsin.