Claudia Banks, owner of Heavenly Touch Cleaning Service, prides herself “on my work for both business and residential cleaning service needs.”

The company, she said, “offers the comfort in knowing that I am honest, dependable and trustworthy.”

She established her company 20 years ago. It is headquartered at 8715 George Washington Memorial Highway, licensed and bonded. Services include all general cleaning such as mopping, sweeping and dusting, with an extra charge for window-washing. Her motto is “I will get the job done right the first time.”

Banks endured a touch of bad luck just as she was setting out. “When I first started my business I became ill. I was not working for about six months.”

She regained her health and decided to persevere because she truly wanted to be her own boss and to own her business, her goal and her dream.

A native of Gloucester County, she and her siblings learned all about business from their mother, Rose Merry Lewis, and Banks was a housekee...