A CARE home in Minehead has been thanked for looking after a "unique and perfect" woman before her death last year. Claire Pearse, who was described by her four daughters - Susan, Caroline, Alison and Jane - as "courageous and ahead of her time, elegant but down to earth, regal yet never afraid to be ridiculous", died on October 1 2020, after a stay at Blenheim Lodge in Minehead. Her daughter, Jane Bradshaw, has expressed her appreciation for the care her mother received at the home. Mrs Pearse was born in Minehead in 1935, but grew up in Bristol. She had many different jobs, from bus conductor to working in Horsham hospital, and had an "endless enthusiasm and appetite for life".