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• Local business opens to dry clean Thomson
By Wayne Parham
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| Brenda Taylor wants to provide top quality service to customers in McDuffie County. Photo by Wayne Parham. |
When her mid-level management job was cut out several years ago, Brenda Taylor never knew she would follow a path which would lead her to purchasing a drying cleaning business in Thomson.
During hard economic times, her position at Medical College of Georgia was eliminated a few years ago and she began helping her daughter with a laundry business in Aiken, S.C. The daughter left the business and moved to Florida and soon Taylor, and her son Jason, found themselves running the business.
Taylor and her son are the owners of Taylor Laundry and Cleaners, formerly Thomson Cleaners, located at 1464 Washington Rd., Suite G. They purchased the dry cleaning business in December and opened to customers at the beginning of January.
But for Taylor, family ties to laundry go back decades.
“My mother worked at Fort Gordon Quartermaster Laundry her entire life,” she said.
At one point, all laundry for the soldiers was done on base. Taylor’s mother, Jeannette Hall Giles, worked at the base laundry for more than 40 years and worked her way up to being a supervisor. She passed away two years ago, before she had a chance to see her daughter enter the laundry business in Aiken.
“She was very meticulous, very detailed oriented and I am too,” she said.
To read more on this story, see the Wed., Jan. 18, edition of The McDuffie Progress.
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