Bainbridge resident Elizabeth Imelda Arcand, age 77, died Feb. 21 at Messenger House Care Center on Bainbridge Island.

She was born Dec. 24, 1925, in New Haven, Conn., to Jeremiah Francis and Mary Loretta (Cavanaugh) Dunn. She graduated from Commercial High School in New Haven, Conn., in 1943.

She earned a degree as a registered nurse from Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Portland, Maine. She later worked in private practice in New Haven until being commissioned as an ensign in the Navy in 1950.

She served at Bethesda Naval Hospital and at St. Albans in New York, where she met her husband, Albert Arcand, a naval officer.

She became a homemaker and mother after an honorable discharge in 1952, and spent the next 15 years traveling to such places as New York; Norfolk, Va., Guam; Brunswick, Maine; Korea and Keyport, Wash.

The couple moved to Bainbridge Island in 1967.

She was devoted to her children and to her husband of 52 years, enjoying picnics, swimming and knitting. She also volunteered for Children’s Orthopedic, Bainbridge Island; and the naval hospital in Bremerton.

She gave her family her deep faith in God.

She is survived by her husband, Albert, of Bainbridge; four sons: Jeremiah of Yakima, Albert, Jr., of Bethesda, Md., Edward of Silverdale, and Andrew of Silverdale; daughters Denise Wolber of Colleyville, Texas; Colette Arcand of Bainbridge, and Michele Belieu of Bainbridge; 14 grandchildren; brothers Daniel Dunn and William Dunn; and sisters Loretta McCarthy and Jane Dunn, all of Connecticut.

She was preceded in death by her son Paul in 1976, and her sister, Anna in 1993.

The rosary will be said at 10 a.m. Feb. 26 followed by the mass of Christian burial at 10:30, both at St. Cecilia Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Kane Cemetery, Bainbridge Island.

Remembrances can be made to National Osteoporosis Foundation, Attention: Memorials, 1232 22nd St. NW, Washington, DC 20037-1292 (information: www.nof.org).

Arrangements are under the direction of Kass Funeral Home, Bainbridge Island.