originally posted on 1/20/2025
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My wife, Louise “Weasie” Forsåker, born Eleanor Louise Porter on December 21, 1946, passed away after a prolonged illness on January 22, 2024. With the help of family and friends, I sold our house in Massachusetts and flew home to Sweden with her ashes and our cat, Mr. Honey. She was laid to rest in the Duved church cemetery, where I will be buried with her some day.
Louise’s hobbies were crafts, music and traveling. She loved animals. Her very first coaster ride was the Salisbury Beach Wildcat, which she rode when she was 10 years old. It scared her away from coasters for 10 years! Her next coaster ride was on the Canobie Lake Park Yankee Cannonball; sadly she did not dare to ride the Revere Beach Cyclone before it closed.
At Riverside (Agawam, Massachusetts) in 1983 Louise met ACE members, who were at the park for Cyclone ERT, and got an ACE membership application from them. Louise and I both became ACE members in 1984.
Louise was definitely a coaster enthusiast. After Paragon Park closed, she and a friend flew from Boston to New York to ride the Coney Island Cyclone and flew home on the very same plane. The flight crew laughed and commented “You again!"
Louise riding backward on Crystal Beach Comet in the second car while her husband was riding forward in the third car.
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The Crystal Beach and Great Escape versions of Comet as well as Kings Island’s The Beast were among Louise’s favorite roller coasters.
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Coaster Con VII in 1984 in Canada was Louise’s first Coaster Con. After the New England Coaster Con in 1985, Louise traveled to Blackpool in England and to Southport Pleasureland, where we met riding Cyclone. We exchanged letters for a year, and then I visited her, after which we made trips to La Ronde and Crystal Beach in Canada.
Later we got married in her home town and honeymooned in California at Coaster Con X in 1987. Another trip was to Kings Island, where Louise finally rode The Beast.
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While a resident of Sweden, Louise enjoyed Germany’s traveling coasters such as Himalaya Bahn and Thriller.
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While living in Sweden, we went to Germany and visited the Dusseldorf fairground and rode Thriller and Himalaya Bahn (now Alpina Bahn). I also took her to Tivoli, Bakken, Liseberg and Gröna Lund so she got to ride European coasters.
After moving back to the United States, we traveled a lot, visiting national parks as well as amusement parks. Boulder Dash at Lake Compounce was Louise’s very last coaster ride. I continue to ride coasters for her. I miss her so much.
— Jörgen Forsåker, Louise’s husband of 36 years
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