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Wendy Schnoor
Owner, Stylist
What We Offer: Men, women, and kids cuts, balayage, highlights and babylights, certified Brazilian Blowout specialists, microblading, lash lift and tint, brow laminations, hand spray tans, and hand sewn weft extensions.
THE W SALON
720 Watts Ave., Pascagoula 228.219.9126 thewsalon720@icloud.com
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Debbie Batia
Inspired by her parents, both interior designers, Debbie Batia entered the family business after her father’s sudden death in 1975. She had been working in a bank but found she loved the business she grew up in and never looked back.
“Each new client or project is a challenge I love to take on,” she says. “I try to design each project with planning for that particular client’s needs, budget and vision. I never do the same design or furniture choices twice.”
The smiles and happiness she gets to be a part of make her job more like an adventure every day, not like work.
She says her two grown children and four beautiful grandchildren are her greatest personal successes. In business, her greatest success is the resilience she showed through recovery from Katrina. “Starting the business over on my own, staying in business through the worst of times over the last 19 years, working through my own personal tragedies and triumphantly still working and owning my own successful business gives me great satisfaction to show the world that I stood on my own two feet and got through bad times,” she added.
A favorite thing to do is dining at Mary Mahoney’s restaurant where her family has been going since she was a little girl in the 1960s.
D. BATIA INTERIORS LLC
1001 Howard Ave., Biloxi 228.385.2657 | www.dbatiainteriors.com
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