Edson O. Sessions, Envoy to Finland, Ecuador

Edson O. Sessions, 85, former U.S. ambassador to Finland and Ecuador who also headed a foreign aid mission to Thailand during the Eisenhower Administration. Sessions, who headed a large Chicago-based engineering consulting firm founded by his father from 1934 to 1957, also was named a deputy postmaster general by President Dwight D. Eisenhower before being appointed an ambassador by President Lyndon B. Johnson. In Laguna Hills on Sunday.