Woodside resident Barbara Condon Sonsini, a language teacher and a competitor in bridge and, in her youth, tennis, died Nov. 28 in the company of her family. She was 79.
Barbara Sonsini was married to Larry Sonsini, a founder and partner in the Palo Alto law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
She was a native of San Francisco and had a bachelor of arts degree from Pomona College and a master’s degree in education from Stanford University, a family spokesperson said. Her studies also took her to Switzerland, Austria and Mexico, and she taught German and French language classes at Cupertino High School for many years.
She is the granddaughter of Charles G. Harvey, who attended the United States Military Academy at West Point at the same time as General Douglas MacArthur and served with him in the Philippines during World War II, her family said.
She played in regional and national bridge tournaments and accumulated 7,500 masterpoints “in a relatively short time,” her family said. She represented the United States on a team that played at the World Bridge Teams Championships in Indonesia in 2013.
Barbara Sonsini is survived by her husband Larry; her daughter Allison Buttles of San Francisco; stepsons Matthew Sonsini and Peter Sonsini, both of Menlo Park; and eight grandchildren.
