James M. Powell, a retired city schools stationary engineer, died Friday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after being struck by a car while crossing a West Baltimore intersection. He was 80 and had lived in the Edmondson Village neighborhood for 20 years.

Mr. Powell operated school boilers for the city Department of Education, and after retiring in 1990, he worked for Maryland Cup Co. and the old Liberty Medical Center.

Born and raised in Baltimore, Mr. Powell earned a stationary engineer's license after graduating from Carver Vocational-Technical High School.

He served with the Army during World War II and was wounded in Europe.

He was a block captain on North Lyndhurst Street, a volunteer at the downtown Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a member of Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the state's Foster Care Review Board.

His wife of 20 years, the former Clara Woolford, died in 1958.

Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at Central Baptist Church, 2035 W. Baltimore St., where Mr. Powell was a member and served on the usher board.

He is survived by two sons, Tyrone Powell of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Anthony Powell of Baltimore; three daughters, Gwendolyn Powell Marshall and Cynthia Powell Rice, both of Tucson, Ariz., and Leona Powell Spence of Atlanta; 11 grandchildren; and a great-grandson.