John Marshall Woodbridge (1929-2014)

John Marshall Woodbridge died Monday, June 2, 2014. He was travelling abroad in the south of France. The cause of death was a heart attack.

John was a long-time Bay Area resident who moved to Sonoma in 1977. From 1972-77 he lived in Washington, D.C., where he was the director of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation (PADC), a government agency founded in 1972 to redevelop the area between the White House and the Capitol. Before going to Washington, he was employed for 14 years in the San Francisco office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. John was also the co-author with Sally Woodbridge of four guidebooks to the architecture of San Francisco and Northern California.

John was born in Manhattan on Jan. 26, 1929. He moved to San Francisco in 1956, then to Berkeley and finally to Sonoma in 1977. He married the noted poet Carolyn Kizer in 1975. He is survived by her; by his sister, Jane Woodbridge Sieverts; by his son, Larry Woodbridge; and daughter, Pamela Woodbridge; and by his stepchildren, Jill, Scott and Ashley Bullitt; and nine grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, Aug. 9, at 4 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in Sonoma.