Married Joanne and had 3 sons, Bruce, John, and Joe Schroeder Jr. After the war, he worked as an electrician with Bill Bothwell in Florida before moving to California where he worked as an electrician at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation’s “Skunk Works” facility in Burbank unti he passed away in 1984 from cancer. Buried, along with his wife Joanne, who passed away in 1991, in the Riverside National Cemetery located at March Air Force Base in California.