Obituaries

In the 1950s and 1960s, she volunteered as an poll watcher during Falls Church elections.

She was a member of Faith Lutheran Church in Arlington, where she joined the Altar Guild, the Prayer Circle, the Hospitality Committee and the Lutheran Church Women. She was a charter member and an officer of the Sons of Norway Lodge and a founding member of the Norwegian Society of Washington.

Her husband of 45 years, George Hayes, died in 1989.

Survivors include four children, Ingrid Fry and Susan Hayes, both of Catlett, Robert Hayes of Virginia Beach and William Hayes of Fort Valley, Va.; seven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson.

-- Patricia Sullivan

Emanuel Stephen KarasRestaurateur

Emanuel Stephen "Manny" Karas, 86, who owned three restaurants known as Babes in Northwest Washington, died of cancer Nov. 8 at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Mr. Karas, a former D.C. government health inspector, began in the restaurant business in the 1950s with Manny's Grill. He later owned Barry's and Karasel Vending, both in Washington; Roy's House of Beef and Manny's Surf and Turf in Fairfax; and Mother Tucker's of Fort Lauderdale.

Media personalities from nearby television stations frequented Babes on Wisconsin Avenue from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. He sold his restaurant in 1992 and it later became a billiards cafe.

Mr. Karas was born in Newark, the eldest boy of four siblings. He started working at age 8 to help his family through the Depression, and when his father moved the family to Washington a couple of years later, he worked in his father's restaurants.

At 16, Mr. Karas became a private in the D.C. National Guard, and about five years later, in 1942, he joined the Army Air Forces and became an aviation cadet and pilot doing test flights. He was later injured in a crash. He was discharged in 1947.