Obituaries

Eva Milagros Jamias CarrHomemaker, Volunteer

Eva Milagros Jamias Carr, 72, a homemaker with an interest in politics and world affairs, died Nov. 25 of a heart attack at Sibley Memorial Hospital. She was a longtime resident of the District.

Mrs. Carr, known as Mila, was born in Manila and grew up under the Japanese occupation during World War II. She recalled how her family struggled to keep food on the table during the war, an experience that brought on a lifelong aversion to squash, coconut milk and snails.

She received her undergraduate degree in foreign affairs from the University of the Philippines in 1953 and worked for some years at the Philippine National Intelligence Coordinating Agency. She moved to the Washington area in 1958 to pursue a master's degree in international relations at Georgetown University, which she received in 1962.

She worked part time at the headquarters of the Phi Beta Kappa Society while attending Georgetown and for a couple of years in the mid-1980s at Trinity College. But she devoted most of her life in Washington to raising her five children and participating in school activities. She volunteered in the libraries, as "lunch mother" and occasionally as an emergency substitute teacher. For many years, she was a member of a small group that met to sew for charity.

After her children were grown, she was active in the Bible study group of Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in the District and in the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase. She was passionately interested in politics and world affairs and loved good food, history, reading and crossword puzzles.

Survivors include her husband of 44 years, Robert F. Carr of the District; five children, Michael Carr of the District, Christopher Carr of Mason Neck, Maria Cristina "Tina" Carr of Silver Spring, Robert V. Carr of Silver Spring and Sarah Carr of Alexandria; a sister; and 11 grandchildren.

Marian Hilda Claassen FranzDirector of Nonprofit Group

Marian Hilda Claassen Franz, 76, former director of a nonprofit organization that for many years lobbied Congress to pass a law allowing taxes to be directed to nonmilitary uses, died of cancer Nov. 17 at her home in Washington.

For the past 24 years, Mrs. Franz was director of the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund in Washington. The fund would allow people who are conscientiously opposed to war to pay all of their tax obligations without having their money used to fund military force.

"It is a way to protect the religious freedom and the rights of conscience of that minority of taxpayers whose religious and moral principles forbid their participation in war in any form," Mrs. Franz once wrote.

She spoke frequently on conscientious objection, taking regular trips to international conferences in Europe and testifying before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in New York.

Mrs. Franz was one of the founders of Conscience and Peace Tax International, which works through international movements and institutions such as the United Nations and the European Union to obtain recognition of conscientious objection to paying for armaments and war.

At the time of her death, she was the organization's international chairwoman. She was scheduled to chair the international conference in Berlin in October but was unable to because of health problems.