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.