Joseph Hubbard ... ran Somersworth record-antique shop

MILTON - Joseph Harry Hubbard died on Wednesday, November 18, 2015, from injuries suffered in a car accident a week prior in Milton. He is survived by his loving wife of 31 years, Nancy LaRue (Kendall), daughters, Michelle Minckler, Geraldine Valvo, and Rebecca Hetherington of Las Vegas, sisters Gertrude Dow and Charlene Wholley of Haverhill, Mass., Catherine Horne and husband Buster of Meredith, N.H., two stepchildren and their five children, grandchildren Vanessa Palmer of Milton, N.H., Alex Weiner, Gabriela Valvo, and Donald Bretton of Las Vegas and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents, Gertrude Ely and Sylvester Hubbard, and siblings, Amos, George and Mary Gadbois.
Joseph grew up in Haverhill, Mass., and on Staten Island, N.Y. He was always cheerful and helpful to anyone in need. He was a prize winning contractor, restoring many of the island's historic buildings including the Garibaldi Meucci-Museum. After the two bombings of the WTC, he moved his family to Milton, where he raised his granddaughter, and established a record-antique shop in Somersworth. During all these years he studied art and produces a body of his own paintings.
Central to his life was his quest to find his forebears. He was a member of the Oliver Tilden Camp Twenty-Six of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, the American-Canadian Genealogical Society and of the Eastern Woodland Metis Nation Nova Scotia. He took his family to Congres Mondial Acadien Celebrations in Nova Scotia. His journey also took him to the Epping (N.H.) Historical Society where he confirmed that his Jennelle cousins owned a brick yard. Consequently a road was recently named Jenelle Ct.