Mugar, Helen Louise (Gienandt) ,93, of Gloucester, MA. passed away peacefully in her home on December 7, 2014. Formerly of Belmont, MA and Marco Island, FL, Helen was born in Boston in 1921 to Fritz L. and Elizabeth Romberg Gienandt. She was the loving wife of John Martin Mugar , to whom she was married for more than 60 years. He predeceased her in 2007.Helen graduated from Dover High School in New Hampshire, attended Simmons College and graduated from the School of Nursing at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. She went on to become the head nurse of its male surgical ward. In 1943, Helen joined the Navy Nurse Corps and served as an officer in Portsmouth, N.H. where she met her husband John, also an officer in the Navy. She then went overseas to serve in the Pacific Theatre in New Guinea and retired from the Navy in 1946 as a Lt. JG.Through-out Helen's life, she was an avid gardener and lover of nature and art. She was predeceased by her sister Betty Streit. She was the loving mother of Elizabeth Eveillard and her husband Jean-Marie of New York City, Martin Mugar and his wife Alix of Durham, N.H, Ellen Mugar of Cape Elizabeth, ME, and Louise Grubb and her husband Patrick of Point Roberts, WA. She dearly loved her grandchildren, Suzanne and Pauline Eveillard, Gabriel and Eve Mugar, Lydia Clements, and Andrew and Alexandra Grubb. She is also survived by Gabriel Mugar’s wife, Anda French, and Pauline Eveillard’s husband, Douglas Gould. Visiting hours will be held at the Aram Bedrosian Funeral Home, 558 Mount Auburn Street, Watertown, MA 02472 on Sunday, December 14 from 2:00- 5:00 p.m. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend. At the request of the family, funeral service and interment are private. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to Essex County Greenbelt http//www.ecga.org/ or Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire http//www.seltnh.org/ or to the Armenia Tree Project, 65 Main Street #3, Watertown, MA 02472.