Ginger Rose Albanese, age 77, died on July 21, 2022. She was born February 11, 1945, in Bowling Green, Ohio to the late Thomas and Virginia Lorenzen. She is survived by her loving spouse, Larry L. Albanese, daughters Suzanne (Jim) Conrad of Spokane, Washington, Nicole Albanese Carter (Erick) of New Albany, and Wendy Albanese of Reynoldsburg, grandchildren Taylor Young (Derek Crafter), Luke and Jackson Carter, Daniel, Tessa, Ginger Conrad and Dwayne Honeycutt (Conrad); great-grandchildren Kason and Klarissa Crafter. She was preceded in death by her two brothers, Larry Lorenzen of Northwood and Jim Lorenzen of Perrysbug.
Ginger was a career educator who graduated from Perrysburg High School in 1963 and earned a Bachelors, Masters and PhD in Education from The Ohio State University (OSU). Ginger taught business at several high schools in Columbus City Schools, in addition to teaching evenings as an adjunct professor at OSU for future business teachers. She meanwhile co-authored an Accounting textbook that was published by McGraw-Hill.
Following many years of teaching, she worked at OSU developing curriculum materials for the Ohio Department of Education. She was very active in several professional associations: Ohio Business Teachers Association, Ohio Vocational Association, and Delta Pi Epsilon. The final ten years of her career were spent serving Westerville City Schools as Director of Career and Technical Education.