She was the clerk at Frank's sales reading out the mail bids and noting the buyer numbers. Her hobby was raising and showing miniature Schnauzer show dogs.

In addition to working with Frank in the Katen numismatic book business, Laurese bred and exhibited championship schnauzer dogs. Her picture with one of her dogs is on the cover of the Katens' 78th public and mail bid auction sale catalog of the world wide periodical section of their library ... Laurese, Frank's second wife, was about 10 years younger than he, who died on his 98th birthday in 2001.

In the 1990s Laurese was editor of the MANA Journal published by the former Middle Atlantic Numismatic Association. In 1997 MANA and the former Great Eastern Numismatic Association (GENA) merged into the Eastern States Numismatic Association. She wrote an illustrated booklet on the porcelain gambling tokens of Siam, published in 2002. They lived in rural Silver Spring, MD, where they had a home office. They were good friends of the late John Huffman and Gordon Frost.