Sonja Faust Liljengren died April 15 at Masonicare in Newtown. She was born in Manchester, and was a daughter of the late Gunhild and Fabian Faust.

Her son Gary Liljengren, and his wife Rosalind, of Newtown; three granddaughters, Dawn, and Novian Castillo, of San Diego, Calif., to whom she was known as "Mormor," Evin Liljengren, and Brian MacLachlan, of Westbrook, who called her "Farmor," and Heather Liljengren, and Michael Jerdan, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; two great-grandchildren; a brother, Bertil Faust, and his wife Jean; a niece and nephew survive Mrs Liljengren. Her husband, Oke S.W. Liljengren; and her daughter, Karin Clark, predeceased her.

She attended school in Bridgeport, graduating from Bassick High School in 1944, and attended Rhode Island State College. She was a resident of Fairfield for 50 years before moving to Monroe in 1995.

During World War II she worked for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), Washington, DC. She retired from the Burndy Corp in Norwalk.

Mrs Liljengren served as district master of VASA Order of America, in 1960. She was a member and past matron of Marie Lafayette, #111 Order of the Eastern Star (OES), former grand representative of Wisconsin, and served as worthy grand matron of Connecticut in 1980. In 1983 was elected grand treasurer of OES, a position she held until 1997 at which time she was honored with title of grand treasurer emeritus. She served on the Board of Directors of OES, Connecticut, for 23 years, and was former president of High Meadows Condominiums in Monroe. She was a former board member of Masonicare in Wallingford, a member of Lady Martha #103 Daughters of the Nile, Pyremus Temple, commissioned a Kentucky colonel by Commonwealth of Kentucky, and dedicated volunteer at Masonicare in Newtown.

Friends are invited to greet the family, Tuesday, April 19, at the Larson Funeral Home, 2496 North Avenue, Bridgeport, from 4 to 7 pm. Burial will be private, in Oaklawn Cemetery in Fairfield.