Bruce Schumacher

Bruce Schumacher, 62, a resident of West Chicago, IL died on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood. He was born in Chicago on April 22, 1951.

Beloved husband of 33 years to Susan (Fink) Schumacher and father to SuzyQ (the dog); brother of Charles (Paula) Schumacher of Naperville, IL and brother-in-law of Stephen (Diane) Fink of West Fargo, North Dakota. Fond uncle of Ami (Scott) Ketcher of Eagen, MN, Jill (Ryan) Sunderbruch of Naperville, IL, and Cara Schumacher of Lisle, IL, Michael (Jennifer) Fink of West Fargo, ND, Janelle (Travis) Finseth of West Fargo, ND, Caleb Fink of Eugene, OR, Adelle (Devin) Casavant of Fargo, ND and Zachary Fink of West Fargo, ND. Bruce was blessed with and enjoyed many life long friendships. Preceded in death by his parents; Charles Sr. and Florence (Ceccarelli) Schumacher.

Bruce grew up in Chicago and attended Notre Dame High School. His love for electronics lead him to Triton College and he later graduated from Dvry Tech. He started his career at Bally-Midway in Elk Grove Village, IL as an electronic technician working on prototypes and the manufacturing of electronic arcade and casino games where he rose to be the manager of the department. Bally-Midway was later bought by Sigmatron where he was promoted to be the liaison for all major accounts and manager of the customer service department. His home always included a handful of prototype games that family and friends enjoyed while visiting and at parties.
In recent years Bruce was a Real Estate Broker at Century 21 in West Chicago, IL where he specialized in relocation clients and then at Royal Service Realty in Lombard, IL focusing on the Western suburbs as a buyers agent.
Bruce had a passion and inherent talent for golf that he started at age 15. He joined several golf leagues, collected many trophey’s and played in a number of Junior Achievement pro-am golf tournaments with Lee Travino (his golf hero was Arnold Palmer which never got to meet). He enjoyed traveling with his golf buddies (family and friends) to courses throughout the east coast and midwest (Hilton Head, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Indiana, North and South Carolina, and of course Illinois) as well as organizing tournaments to make the golf interesting. For most of his life Bruce maintained a single digit handicap. In 1992 he achieved an official “hole in one” certificate acknowledged by the American Golf Association.
Bruce loved to entertain especially at Christmas; he would plan neighborhood and family parties and outings from the 4th of July to Christmas parties. His love of electronics came alive especially at Christmas decorating both the outside and inside of the house to the extreme with lights, moving characters, and music. He could recite how many lights he used and how it all worked.
He loved music, mostly rock n roll, the Doors were his favorite group. Bruce along with a number of his friends have collected over 10,000 songs (oldies) on their ipods. He enjoyed setting up special play lists for different occasions and presenting loved ones personalized Cds as gifts.
Bruce loved to spoil the nieces and nephews through birthday and holiday gifts that were unique, cutting edge, or just plain fun (nothing practical was allowed) which was his way of fostering creativity in their developing minds.

Memorial Visitation Saturday, July 20, 9:30 AM until the time of the Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 AM at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 1415 W. Lies Road, Carol Stream, IL 60188.
Inurnment at Resurrection Cemetery in Romeoville, IL will be at a later date