Its comforting, she said, knowing you have that security.
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They met at a ir and quickly fell in love.
Scott has become a trusted adviser to White. When she was looking for caregivers for her in-laws, White told her husband she would ask Scott for help.
On Sunday, her friends and co-workers will celebrate Scotts 50 years at the salon with a party from 2 to 4 p.m. at Lambertis, 50-D Miller St.
Bill Lamberti, who ran three hair salons at the time, hired Scott at his Thruway Shopping Center location (now at Miller Street), and she began the slow process of building a client base.
Devastated, Scott took six weeks off from work to grieve, eventually deciding she needed to return to the salon and her friends and shelve retirement. Toni Slayton, who has worked next to Scott for 33 years, said being around her friends was cathartic for Scott.
I dont like change, she said. I had offers, but nothing appealing enough to make me want to leave.
Scott, 73, remains as devoted to Lambertis as to her customers.
Lucille Powell, who bought Lambertis in 1980, has overheard lots of those conversations.
Scott learned how to chat with her customers, figuring out early what they liked to talk about, whether it was mily, work or trips.
In May 2006, Bill Scott and some friends were clearing some woods where they hunted in Virginia. When a tree branch holding one of the men snapped, Bill rushed to catch him. His effort softened the mans landing, but the impact killed Bill instantly.
Salon to celebrate beautician's 50-year career,Since she first began taking clients in January 1962, hundreds of Winston-Salem women have walked away from an appointment with Scott, not just looking better but feeling better.
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She has a heart the size of Pilot Mountain, said Joyce White, who has been going to Scott forbeautician 23 years. Shes just a sweetheart.
Sundays celebration will be cathartic, too. Scott has long anticipated that she would celebrate a 50th anniversary this winter, but she figured it would be her wedding anniversary with Bill.
She hooked me up with a bulous woman. So whenever we have a problem in our house, [adult school] Slice of Life: The season of possessions football yearbooks (0) 2011-12-27 14:39:40 we say, Take it to Sheila, White said.
They will fete a woman who is known to work all day, then drive to a nursing home to style the hair of longtime customers who are no longer mobile; a woman who spends her time mint candy for someone about to celebrate a big day; or baking a pound cake for an elderly customer who had no visitors on her 95th birthday.
Youre not going to find good caregivers at the hair salon, he told her.
Through the years, she teased a lot of hair, shaped unruly hair into pageboy cuts, and turned gray hair a dazzling red or striking blond.
The next best thing will be marking her career at Lambertis with friends who have helped fill the gap of loneliness brought on by his death.
The story of Sheila Scotts 50 years at Lambertis Salon and Day Spa has more to do with compassion and humility than conditioning and highlights.
Bill and Sheila married in February 1962 and moved into a home in Winston-Salem. They have a daughter, Sarah.
Getting back to work helped her work through that as much as possible, Slayton said.
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As she aged, Scott cut back on her hours, now working just two days a week. She had her eyes on retirement around 2006, with the goal of enjoying her senior years with Bill, a man she describes as her best friend.
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Scott grew up in rural New Jersey, living an idyllic country life that included ice skating on top of the mud pits that were dug to build the New Jersey Turnpike. In the early 1960s, she was won over by Bill Scott, a Navy man from Lowgap who worked on blimps while stationed at nearby Lakehurst.
If there is a defined line between customer and beautician, then Scott, a cheerful woman with bright, almost twinkling eyes, blurs it, over and over.
After that, I never felt the need to go anywhere else, White said.
She sort of entertains her customers with her experiences, Powell said. She has a colorful way of speaking to clients.
White, who knew that Scott styled the hair of many older women in town, took her problem to Scott.
There was more style to hair than what we have now, Scott said, reflecting on the weekly appointments that many women kept. People didnt wash their hair every day or every other day. They had that fixed look.
I used to watch my mom get her hair done and I thought it would be the neatest thing, Scott said about being a beautician.
Before moving down to join him in North Carolina, she went to beauty school, fulfilling a childhood dream.
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White was the victim of a hSalon to celebrate beautician's 50-year careerorrible color job by another stylist in 1989 and was told to go to Scott for a fix.