Dr. Schumacher leaves behind his wife of 54 years, Elizabeth Jean Swisher Schumacher, his two daughters, Heidi Wilson and Kaethe Schumacher, and three grandchildren. Rheumatology has lost a treasured colleague who will be fondly remembered with admiration and deeply missed.
Note: Also see the profile on Dr. Schumacher published in The Rheumatologist in January 2010.