James E. Hubbard Jr., a retired contractor, died Sunday of heart failure at Bon Secours Hospital. He was 42 and lived on Winchester Street in Baltimore.
Services for Mr. Hubbard will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the March funeral establishment, 4300 Wabash Ave.
He retired because of ill health about a year ago. He had operated the James Hubbard Construction Co. since the retirement of his father about four years earlier. He worked for his father for many years.

