Muriel Forsberg

Muriel L. Forsberg split her teenage years between Sayville and Montauk. Her father was a fisherman, and when he was working in the summer and fall, the family lived in Montauk in a house not far from the docks and she attended East Hampton High School.

It was there that she met Paul Forsberg, whom she would marry after graduating. The couple settled in Montauk off West Lake Drive. For a time, she was a cook at the Fish Tales restaurant in Montauk. Their three children, Paul Forsberg of Coco Beach, Fla., Steven Forsberg of Montauk, and Patti Ann Forsberg of Smithtown, survive. The couple divorced in 1974.

Mrs. Forsberg, known to friends as Mu, died on Nov. 6 in Indian Harbor Beach, Fla., where she had moved in the late 1970s. She was 75 and had been in declining health for the past year.

She was born in Bay Shore to George B. McTurk and the former Grace Kwaak on May 20, 1939. She retained her father’s love of fishing throughout her life, said her sister, Mary Ann Houston of Blue Point. “She loved fishing of any kind.” She also enjoyed sewing.

Mrs. Forsberg moved to Indian Harbor Beach to be close to another sister, Marjory Grant, as well as her mother, both of whom survive. Mrs. McTurk is 95. She is also survived by eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Forsberg was cremated in a private ceremony. A memorial service will be held this spring in Montauk, on a date to be announced.