James L. Bramble Jr., retired sales manager for a construction equipment company, died Friday at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis of a stroke. He was 61.

Mr. Bramble, who had lived in Severna Park since 1975, was born and raised in Norfolk, Va. After graduation from high school in 1958, he served four years in the Marine Corps.

He was president of the old Wesco Heavy Equipment Co. in Baltimore from 1975 until the late 1980s, then sales manager for Chesapeake High Lift, a Columbia construction equipment supply company, until retiring in 1999 on a medical disability.

He enjoyed fishing, hunting and woodworking and coached youth basketball for the Severna Park Recreation League.

Mr. Bramble was a communicant of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in Severna Park, where a Mass of Christian burial was offered Monday.

He is survived by his wife of 41 years, the former Margaret Query ; three sons, James L. Bramble III of Severna Park, J. Michael Bramble of New Orleans and Thomas J. Bramble of Millersville; two daughters, Margaret McCallister of Marietta, Ohio, and Hilda Evans of Pasadena; his mother, Nancy E. Bramble of Mechanicsburg, Pa.; a brother, Vincent Bramble of Annapolis; four sisters, Sharon Majka of Dillsburg, Pa., Joyce Conrad of Chestertown, Rosemary Bramble of Albuquerque, N.M., and Nancy Lewis of Bowie; and 13 grandchildren.