Thomas A. Emanuel

Service Details

Family and friends are invited to meet at the Draeger-Langendorf Funeral Home and Crematory on Saturday, March 1,2025 for a visitation from 10:00 am-11:00 am.

A service celebrating his life will follow at 11:00 am with a lunch afterwards.  

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Thomas Anthony Emanuel, born in Omaha, Nebraska on October 9th, 1941 passed away on February 10th, 2025 at Ascension All Saints Hospital in Racine, WI.  He was 83.  Tom was the oldest of four children of Leonard and Betty Emanuel. He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother Peter (Joann) Emanuel and is survived by his two sisters, Jean (Steve) Scott, and Barbara (Bruce) Goodnough and his daughter, Ashley (Chris) Calabro.

Tom grew up in a deeply religious Catholic family and was in the seminary for 13 years of his youth.  He met and married Elizabeth Emanual and they moved to the Washington, DC area. They had a daughter in 1970 and divorced in 1976.  Tom completed two Master’s degrees from Georgetown University, one in Public Policy and one in Theology. He worked for the Indian Education Department in the Carter Administration and in various other positions in the government for about a decade. Tom moved to California in the late 1970s and made the west coast his home for most of the rest of his life.  He married Jeanne Emanuel in August of 1987. They ran a business together and published several books.  They retired together to Mexico in the mid 2000s and have been living separately since 2021 when Tom moved to Wisconsin. He spent the last three years living at the Pillars in Racine. Tom is also survived by 18 nieces and nephews.

Family and friends are invited to meet in the Draeger-Langendorf Funeral Home and Crematory on Saturday, March 1, 2025, for a visitation from 10:00 am until 11:00 am.  A service celebrating his life will take place at 11:00 am with a lunch afterwards.