Our Staff

Linda Cavazos

Linda has owned Care Cleaning since 2005 and loves working with her staff. She enjoys getting to know clients and their families, giving the business a personal touch.

Her favorite part of being self-employed is that she can openly walk her walk with God and be an example of grace, charity and mercy. She loves running Care Cleaning on Christian principles. Business ownership also means that she can give back to the community with organizations such as Cleaning for a Reason and Mercy Mall of Virginia. 

Linda is also well known for her love of cats, having some as part of her family both at work and at home. She feeds numerous local feral cats outside her office, in addition to having office mascots that reside at the business.

Dalhia Cavazos

In addition to the graphic design work she does for Care Cleaning (including our lovable skunk logo), Dalhia loves marketing and design because they involve multifaceted processes that create interesting challenges.

Art is where her heart is, and she is a fiber artist and painter.  She’s passionate about color and texture, both painting and working with fiber let her explore these elements. Last year, she won 5 first place awards in painting competitions. Another hobby is researching fashion from the 1800s and early 1900s, another expression of color and texture. You can see her paintings at dalhiaartist.com and graphic design/marketing work at http://www.behance.net/cavazosdesign.

When she’s not working on art and design, you can find her reading, snuggling cats, and enjoying fun cat stuff on Facebook. She loves that Care Cleaning is a supportive company that realizes employees are their greatest asset. The cats in the office are a real bonus.

Heather

The mom of 3 handsome boys, Heather enjoys playing games with them, taking them to the lake, and fishing. When she’s not doing awesome work with Care Cleaning, she may be having a relaxing bubble bath, meditating, or scrapbooking.

Heather finds her passion in making homes beautiful and adding her quality touch to take care of Care Cleaning clients. She loves working here because the staff feels like a big team. She sees her coworkers as partners who always help one another.

Crystal

With two daughters and a son at home, Crystal has plenty going on! She enjoys spending time with them, along with taking her “fur babies” for walks, cooking, and heading to the beach. When she’s not making client homes shine, you may find her shopping, baking, or working on her car.

When asked what she likes about cleaning, Crystal said, “Cleaning has a process, an end, and a result.” She loves that she can see the visually appealing difference her work has made after even a short time. Knowing she helped a client have a clean home gives her great satisfaction.

One of her favorite things about working at Care Cleaning is that every employee is a team player. She also loves the way she’s able to help others through her work.

Dee

Dee has three grown children, four grandchildren and loves crafting. She particularly enjoys cooking and knitting. After over 25 years in the cleaning industry, Dee is certainly a pro. She loves getting to see different home layouts and decor. When it comes to her work at Care Cleaning, she loves her clients and enjoys working with this great group of coworkers.

April 

Since one of April’s favorite activities is organizing her house, we know she’s in the right line of work! She also likes creating new crafts and decorations and experimenting with dinner recipies. When it’s time to relax, April enjoys finding something to watch on Netflix.

April gets a lot of satisfaction from seeing the difference between a bad “before” to a fantastic end product. It gives her great joy to make a difference in people’s lives by completing tasks they may not otherwise have time to do and helping to keep their homes clean. Working at Care Cleaning feels like home to her.

Susie

Animal lover Susie (pictured her with her pup Maggie) loves spending time with her family, especially her grandkids and her dogs. You can often find her shopping yard sales on Saturdays or scrapbooking, crafting, and reading.

In addition to caring for the office kitties, Susie takes great pride in providing excellent care for clients’ pets and thoroughly enjoys what she does. She enjoys the atmosphere at Care Cleaning and notes that everyone gets along so well, always looking out for one another. She says the owner, Linda, is a great boss and genuinely cares about each staff member and client.

Corie

Whether it’s at the park or the beach, Corie loves playing with her young son. She also loves to use her creativity by painting and drawing.

Corie believes that organization and cleanliness make life smoother day by day, and she loves giving clients a little ease in their day, even if it’s simply just coming home to a clean house. Always organizing, she loves the ability to control her time during the day to get her tasks completed.

Jayde

Jayde is a beach lover whose hands are full with 3 young children. While she’s at the beach, she collects sea glass to make art. She loves animals and spending time with family.

Cleaning is something Jayde enjoys because she finds it so satisfying. She loves that Care Cleaning is a family atmosphere and that everyone treats each other nicely.

Angelyna

Angelyna loves seeing the difference her cleaning makes for others, which makes sense because she loves helping people! In addition to caring about others and spending time with friends and family (along with her cat, Weenie), she is passionate about the environment.

One thing Angelyna loves about working at Care Cleaning is the positive work environment and family-like atmosphere.

Croom

With her love of cats, especially the office mascots, Care Cleaning is the perfect place for Croom to work. She appreciates being able to see an immediate result from her cleaning work. In her spare time, Croom likes to catch up on sleep and further her green thumb hobby with plants.

Karla

One of Karla’s favorite things to do is play video games, and she also loves arts, crafts and games. She finds working at Care Cleaning a positive experience because everyone is so nice to get along with (and she loves the lavender uniforms). Giving people a fresh start with a clean space gives her great satisfaction and allows her to take pride in her work.

Dani

When she’s not enjoying game nights with friends, you can find Dani gaming, cooking, gardening, or doing cosplay, art, and archery. She enjoys the smell and feel of a clean space and enjoying the transformation of an area for herself or others to enjoy. Care Cleaning is a perfect place for her because she loves the purple shirts. Dani also appreciates the caring boss, schedule, and keeping her clients satisfied. The office cats are a nice bonus, too!

Rachel

A lover of summer, Rachel loves going to the lake with her young daughter when it’s hot outside. When she’s not working or playing with her little girl, you can find Rachel at the gym. When it comes to cleaning, she finds it satisfying to compare the “before and after” of her work. Rachel loves helping clients keep a clean, healthy home and working with a fun group of ladies that know how to get the job done!

Abigail

Abigail is an animal lover who has lots of pets at home and enjoys photography, journaling, and scrapbooking. She loves to be in nature, going on walks or camping, but you can also find her wrapped up in a good movie.

Making things sparkle and seeing the results of her work makes her feel really accomplished! She says that everyone at Care Cleaning is nice and friendly, and that she likes being able to help people around their houses when they may not have the time to do it themselves.

Kimberly

We’re excited to welcome Kimberly, an animal lover who enjoys fishing, board games, and puzzles. Her kids all have fur or feathers (including a 500lb pet pig!), and her hobbies include gardening, reading, and cooking/baking.

Kimberly finds cleaning relaxing. She says that it’s satisfying to go into a house and see the difference after cleaning. The cats in the office are a huge benefit, and she’s found the employees and clients to be very kind and respectful.

Nick

Nick is a graduate of William and Mary who works with us to keep his weekends and evenings free to pursue his music career. In addition to music, he enjoys hiking and reading.

In reference to working at Care Cleaning, Nick says he likes making a difference in people’s homes. He’s a team player and gets along well with his collegues and the office cats.

Kaitlyn

With 3 children, Kaitlyn stays plenty busy. She loves spending time with them and taking them fun places.

When it comes to cleaning, she enjoys making a difference in each home. Kaitlyn finds everyone at Care Cleaning to be kind and team players. She also loves the great clients she’s met.

Ally

Ally is ambitious and loves to dream. When she’s not traveling, she enjoys reading, writing, drawing, playing video games, and listening to music. She also loves animals, so working among the office cats is perfect for her.

Cleaning homes is a great job for Ally because she likes being able to see the effects of her work immediately and knows that it helps others. It helps her feel accomplished and necessary. She also likes the personal, friendly feeling at Care Cleaning and finds it easy to get along with others and work efficiently.

Olivia

When she’s not hiking, cooking, or reading, you may find Olivia watching true crime dramas. She loves animals and has a dog and a cat of her own.

Olivia loves seeing the results of all her hard work, along with the happiness it brings to the clients. She says that everyone at Care Cleaning is super sweet and supportive, and the office cats are a fun bonus.

Laura

One of Laura’s favorite pastimes is to go watch the sun rise and set. What a peaceful hobby! She also enjoys watching tv shows, volleyball, and speed skating.

Laura enjoys cleaning because she likes seeing how homes can look better and prettier. According to her, the work environment is amazing, and everyone is nice to one another. She loves that she can have fun while doing her job!

Kiah

Kiah’s varied interests include watching anime and studying different languages and cultures. She also likes massage therapy and meditation.

When asked what she loves about cleaning, Kiah said she loves the finished product and peace of a clean space. She finds her team super nice and helpful.

Foster

Foster got his name because he was not to stay with us permanently, just until we found him a good home. He is what is called a “foster fail”. Once he wiggled his way in with the staff we could not let him go. We found him in the fall of 2016 in the parking lot – sadly, we think someone abandoned him. He is safe now and very happy. Always ready to play and eat (he is on a diet now – not much success so far)

Frankie

Frankie is our big, fluffy boy. He came to our office in the summer of 2007 with his brother Johnnie. He was probably about 6 weeks old and was found in a tree stump. Another love muffin , he loves for his head and back to be rubbed….. all the time. Frankie also likes to give his feline family a bath – whether they want one or not. He is picky about his cat food but will not be shy to ask, beg or grab your people food (which he rarely gets). Frankie helps the staff get ready for their route in the mornings by talking to them (loudly) and demanding to be petted, he knows the staff really want to stay with him every day instead of leaving him behind to do their cleaning.

Sadly, our sweet Frankie passed away April 2023 after a brief illness.

Fred

Fred – younger brother of Bobarino, was born in our warehouse on January 7, 2007. He had 2 litter mates, Precious and Bubbies. They were all born with really short or no tails – mystery to us since both parents had regular long tails. Fred is a sweet gentle soul who loves to be loved on. He often is holding my hand while I am typing at the computer. We have conversations but I am not sure what he is telling me but he is very insistent that I listen. Loud noises will send him running under the sofa – which is not easy for him, he has to lay on his side and pull himself to get under and back out.

Bobarino (Bob)

Bobarino “Bob” – was our first permanent office kitty. He came to us as a 4 month old kitten with his kitty mommy and quickly became the king of the office. He loved to play hide and seek in the office trash cans and under blankets on the sofa, plus he had a real thing for getting into purses. He was the surrogate big brother for all the kitties that moved into the office and kept everyone in line. He was the “real” big brother for Precious and Fred and took great care of them after their mommy kitty moved to her new house. Sadly, our sweet Bobarino passed away unexpectedly May, 2017.

Johnnie

Johnnie – our muscular boy. He came to our office in the summer of 2007 with his brother Frankie. He was probably about 6 weeks old and was found in a tree stump. He was always the first one to take my office chair if I dared to get up to leave the chair unguarded. At least, he always left a warm spot. He loved sitting in front of his brother, Frankie, while they simultaneously gave each other baths. Johnnie was the investigator, he always wanted to know what we were doing with his inquisitive look of “What’ca doin'”. He could always be found wherever the sun was shining into the office – getting his tan on. Sadly, Johnnie passed away 2017 due to lung cancer. Gone but definitely not forgotten.

Precious

Precious – younger sister of Bobarino, was born in our warehouse on January 7, 2007. She had 2 litter mates, Fred and Bubbies. She was the only girl kitty and the boys liked to tease and chase her – not her favorite past time. She loved to cuddly with her brothers, Fred and Bobarino, and especially liked having her belly rubbed. Precious had favorite rubber soccer ball cat toys. She would walk around holding one in her mouth and repeatedly meow, loudly. She developed Diabetes in 2018. Although she had to have 2 shots a day and constant ear poking to test her blood sugars she never complained or ran off. Unfortunately, Precious passed away November 2020 leaving a hole in our hearts for such a sweet, little girl.

Floyd

Sammie

Sammie has been part of our “Sidewalk Gang” for a few years now. A few weeks ago, he sashayed into the office and has not left since.  He is a love muffin with all the kitties and staff.  Sammie has made himself very comfortable.  He loves having food at his beck and call and staying warm and dry. He really enjoys looking out the window at the other members of the “Sidewalk Gang” – he doesn’t seem to miss being a part of the Gang.  Hopefully, he is not taunting them.

Francesca (Franny)

Francesca moved into our office when her lease expired at her last house. She is tiny but mighty – she is actually fully grown.  She loves being the only girl with 4 big boys.  They are gentle and loving with her – giving her baths whether she needs it or not.  Hide and seek is her favorite game – she is a champion player.

Dave

This is Dave at 5 months old. He was a bottle-fed baby and still likes to be held like a baby. He is also a two-paw polydactyl (extra toes) kitty. He is mischievous and adventuresome. He keeps the older guys in the office young, even when they don’t want to be. He and Yvette are quite the pair of wrestling kittens.

Yvette

Yvette was rescued from a breeder/hoarder, along with almost 200 other kitties. She is the sweetest, gentle Main Coon. In this picture she is 4 months old, yes, she will be a big kitty, a Gentle Giant. All four paws have extra toes (polydactyl). She loves cuddles, food, tossing toys around and wrestling with Dave.