When Ilisapesi Faiana Hafoka was born on 15 August 1877, in Houma, Tongatapu, Tonga, her father, Sione Hafoka, was 17 and her mother, Sepiuta Funaki, was 13. She married Tominiko Moala 'Atunaisa on 10 March 1895. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 14 February 1966, in her hometown, at the age of 88, and was buried in Houma, Tongatapu, Tonga.