Death date: Mar 29, 2017
Juliet Renee Williams, known to her family and many friends as Julie, passed from this life on March 29, 2017, due to complications from ovarian cancer. She has now rejoined her much beloved late husband, Douglas, who preceded her Read Obituary
Julie I will truly miss you the time we spent at CVS will never be forgotten. You will always have a place in my heart. Love always Ms.Keshia Linsey
Doug Williams and I were working together at a club call Smoky's Saloon in 1980. One night a dance group The Opossum Trot Cloggers came in to dance to our music. They were fabulous especially one. It was Julie. Doug and Julie met that night and you could see the magic from the beginning with those two. They began to see each other and before long they had fallen in love. Julie was great and all the band took her in as one of our own and protected her like a younger sister. My wife at the time, Patsy Pace Maines and I spent lots of time with Julie and Doug who had been my friend since the mid 60's. Always fun, pleasant and two of my favorite people. What a tragic end for two of the most beautiful people I know. They will always be alive in my heart and God Bless their souls. You just don't meet people like them everyday.
Never got to meet Julie.She also was at Birchwood Personal Care Home where my mother was. Being a small home everyone was close. I would ask everytime I went yo see my mother I would ask how Julie was. Brought flowers to mom & asked they be split between Mama & Julie. I hope she got to enjoy them a while before she was taken to Hospice. Rest in peace Julie you have fought a long hard battle.
I only met Julie once when Doug introduced us to each other at a Pebblebrook High School reunion. She struck me as such a sweet person and it was obvious right away how much Julie and Doug loved each other. I am very sad that they struggled these last couple of years with Julie's health. But they are together once again rejoicing and celebrating together in their new heavenly home. Rest in Peace sweet together sweet Doug and Julie.
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there - I do not sleep.
I am the thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints in snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
As you awake with morning's hush
I am the swift-up-flinging rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there - I did not die.
I've known Julie almost 20 years, as the "and Julie" half of DougandJulie, but also as Julie, of the beautiful smile and the indomitable spirit. She had many talents and interests but her greatest talent was for life itself, which she lived fully and fiercely. I only saw Doug and Julie together once after I moved to New Jersey in 2002 but we kept up on Facebook. We talked on the phone after Julie's diagnosis. She said when she told friends about her diagnosis, they sometimes asked what stage, and she responded, the surviving stage. And that is what Julie did. She fought through numerous chemo infusions and complications. The nurses and attendants loved her and that incredible, room lighting smile! She and Doug lived their days, eating barbeque, seeing friends, playing music. When I saw her in January, she was looking forward, not back. She liked the group home she was moving to, and she felt she was landing in a good place. She had her sports teams, her books and always, that cancer to fight. She was determined not to be conquered. And she wasn't. But she knew beyond doubt that Doug was waiting. So the woman who loved life fiercely, let go of the one that wasn't working and reached for a better one waiting for her. Cancer didn't win. Doug and Julie won. Love won.
