This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Juliet McCalman, 69, born on July 29, 1947 and passed away on October 29, 2016. We will remember her forever.
Juliet McCalman 69, went to her heavenly home to be with the Lord on October 29, 2016 after a valiant battle with breathing complications. Her devotion to her family and her strong faith in God supported her in her sickness and ultimately gave her peace.
Juliet was born to George Nurse and the late Enid Nurse, an accountant and a pre-school school teacher respectively, in Guyana, South America on July 29, 1947. She was immersed in the Christian community that would be her lifelong support from an early age. She was a fervent follower of Christ from her adolescence and as a student and young adult she worked with the Campus Crusade for Christ Ministries in the USA and the Wycliffe Bible Translators in Brazil. She graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 1972 with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degree and accepted a position as an Art teacher at Bishop’s High School in Georgetown, Guyana , where she would teach for 34 years.
Juliet was blessed with a loving family and caring church friends. She married Clive McCalman, on December 9, 1978 in Georgetown, Guyana. Juliet was the mother of two daughters; Renee her only surviving child and Thandika who went to be with the Lord as a baby. She enjoyed travelling in her early years and she worked as a teacher on three different continents including South America, Africa and North America.
She was very artistic and also an avid reader and creative writer who expressed herself in words with visual finesse. She loved the beauty of nature and had a penchant for bright and colorful creations. She had a beautiful spirit and epitomized the inner beauty and outer glow that emanated from the grace of God on her life. From the very beginning, he dedicated her children to God. She taught her daughter Renee in the ways of the Lord which lead to her becoming a committed follower of Christ.
Juliet was a lover of the Word of God and enjoyed meditating on the scriptures and applied it to her everyday life. She was a woman of great faith and a prayer warrior who knew how to travail in prayer before God. Her total reliance on God is what kept her strong thoroughout all of her challenges in life. She gladly prayed for others and always gave whatever she could to be a blessing to those in need. She was selfless, kind and soft-spoken, and always offered a word of encouragement to anyone she met and Godly advice to her family and friends. She is dearly missed by her loved ones, who take comfort in knowing that she is at peace in heaven with Jesus, with no more sickness, pain and suffering. She is happy in heaven her home of eternal rest.
Juliet is survived by her husband, Clive; her daughter Renee, her father George and his sister, Sheila. She is preceded in death by her daughter, Thandika McCalman and her brother, Wolsey Nurse.
A memorial service will be held at the Calvary Assembly of God Church on Saturday, 5th November at 10:00am. Viewing of the body will commence at 9:00 am. Juliet will be buried at the Springfield Township Cemetery following the service and reception. Pastor Bill McGinnis will officiate the service. The family gratefully accepts flowers and thankfully appreciates prayers, condolences and memories from all family and friends.
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May your prayers for your precious daughter and for this world still come before Heavenly Father
Precious memories
Precious friend
Enjoy sweet presence of Jesus
If there’s any prayer needed in heaven I am sure my precious friend Julie is praying up a storm
Loved praying with her
Friend since school days
Pauline
on forever / You are truly missed, and I know your SOUL is at PEACE
8“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
10“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11 So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
12“For you will go out with joy
And be led forth with peace;
The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy
before you,
And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
13“Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up,
And instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up,
And it will be a memorial to the LORD,
For an everlasting sign which will not be cut off.
I know that you are enjoying the sweet presence of our Lord, one day all His children will be together, there will be no parting then.
Until then I will treasure your memory Julie
Love you bunches
Julie and I became friends in the late 60’s by another friend, Pauline Trent Blackmon. We enjoyed much fun together as young Christians and enjoyed each other’s company. Of the three of us, I got married first, then Pauline left for England to study nursing where she met her life partner Tony Blackmon from Barbados. Even with us being far apart, we still remained good friends.
Juliet left for the U.S. to attend Oral Roberts University. She had a very hard time in studying, but she gained her degree in art. God is good, and she came back to Guyana, South America and got married to her present husband Clive McCalman. She was a teacher in art at one of our top schools in Guyana. She got pregnant with her first child Renee McCalman. Then, they migrated to the U.S. and she was a teacher until she became disabled to work.
Our friendship grew in all the changing seasons of life growing closer and stronger through the years. We shared life stories more. We would call each other on the phone and talk for hours encouraging each other. I will miss her a lot because we did not have a chance to talk to each other to say our parting words. But I have the hope of seeing her again in Heaven one day and will continue to be a close aunt to Renee. I am happy that her pains and sufferings are over and she is resting in Jesus, our King of kings and Lord of lords. Rest on my friend until we meet on the Heavenly shores.
What I remember most about you is your gentle , soft spoken demeanor. You always wore a smile on your face and possessed a welcoming spirit. Your faith in God was strong and you lived it and showed that to the world. May you rest in peace with the Creator.
Our friendship grew into visits to each others homes, we spent many hours together.
We were both new Christians and enjoyed talking about our new found friend Jesus. I have often referred to Julie as an Earl Roberts girl. She was an avid listener to the daily Christian radio broad casts and would share with me what she had learned. Julie had a deep understanding of the role of the Holy Spirit and she made sure that she passed her knowledge and revelation to me. I remember her making a point of asking that we meet at our little church one day , there she preached a message on the Holy Spirit to me, I was the only congregant and she was the preacher. Yes my friend, even at such a young age was not afraid to share her faith and to be different. She was a woman of excellence and great faith.
One memory that stays with me is of our times together picking roses from Julie's family garden. I would stop by her house for a visit and at the end of my visit she would ask if I needed some roses, we would then proceed to the garden where she would have me choose the best roses.
I don't know who tends the roses in heaven but they must be beautiful and my dear friend would have no problem surrounding her self by them . One day we will walk heaven together and enjoy the roses in the Father's garden ... until then, this is not good bye but good night, my sweet friend. Thank you for being a blessing to me and for sharing with me the eternal truths of the Holy Spirit.
You have left us a beautiful piece of yourself in Renee and I promise to treasure her and be in her life as much as she wishes.
years for inviting us to watch the annual fireworks from
your balcony. My tears are flowing but you are whole and
healthy with Jesus now. My friend one day we will meet
on the other side in love and in peace!
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