BOISE
Monsignor Andrew J. Schumacher
1934 — 2024
The Choir of Angels were singing his favorite song, "God is so Good", as Monsignor Andrew J. Schumacher, a Roman Catholic priest, who served in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise for over 64 years, passed over the threshold of earthly life to eternal life on July 14, 2024 in Boise, ID. He was 90 years of age. Monsignor Andy (the title bestowed on him in 2008), perhaps best remembered by the name, "Father Andy", was born at home to Leo Frank Schumacher and Mary Antonia (Schmidt) Schumacher, on a Sunday spring afternoon, March 18, 1934, in Greencreek, Idaho. His grandmother, Philomena Bernadina (Schmidt) Jansen was the mid-wife at his birth Father Andy was the youngest of a family of four...