A Funeral Mass for William Henry Hubbard, 90, will be celebrated on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 in the Church of Saint Patrick, Watertown.

Mr. Hubbard, a son of the late James F. and Emily F. (Wogan) Hubbard, was born in Watertown. A graduate of Watertown High School in Massachusetts and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, he furthered his education in business at the Harvard University Extension School.

During World War II, he served in the US Navy as an Aviation Machinist’s Mate Flight Engineer. He was with the Patrol Bombing Squad. #211 and the HEDRON 14-1 Flight Air Wing-14 and was honorably discharged at the end of the war.

For many years he was a procurement specialist at the Watertown Arsenal (Army Materials and Research Center) in Watertown until his retirement in June of 1973. In 1969 he moved to Harwich Port from Watertown. Mr. Hubbard was a member of Holy Trinity Parish in Harwich Port and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2578 in Hyannis and enjoyed playing golf. He died on Thursday, July 8, 2010, in the Cape Cod Hospital after a brief illness.

He was the beloved husband for 64 years of the late Elizabeth A. “Bette” (Kennedy) Hubbard who died in May 2009; devoted father of Charles R. Hubbard and his wife Pegeen Wright of Belmont and the late Cpl. Ronald J. Hubbard (USMC); loving grandfather of Julie Hubbard, Jeffrey Hubbard and Molly Hubbard; and dear brother of Barbara Chandnoit of Natick and the late James F. Hubbard and Marguerite E. Kennedy.

The Funeral will be from the MacDonald, Rockwell & MacDonald Funeral Home at 270 Main St., on Rte. 20, Watertown, on Tuesday at 8 AM followed by a Funeral Mass at 9 o'clock in the Church of Saint Patrick, 212 Main St., Watertown. Interment will be in Ridgelawn Cemetery, Watertown.

Calling hours will be on Monday, July 12th from 5-7 PM in the MacDonald, Rockwell & MacDonald Funeral Home on Main Street. Relatives and friends kindly invited to attend.