Our loving Wife and Mum Rachel Pearson sadly passed away on the 10^th June 2020, surrounded by her family at home and after a short battle with cancer. 

This page allows tributes and charitable donations to be made in Rachel’s memory. We will be doing various fundraising activities over the coming years to help raise funds for St Catherine's. Rachel always helped others on a daily basis, so any donations will ensure that her legacy will remain forever.

So many of us have happy, fond and very funny memories of Rachel– she was truly one in a million, who brought love, happiness and positivity to her husband for almost 28 years (Ian), children (Claudia & Henry), family, friends, colleagues, students and many, many others. Rachel was the most wonderful person you could ever meet and spend time with.

During Rachel’s last months it was her wish that she spent the remainder of her life at home surround by her family. Due to her complex care needs, this would not have been possible without the support of two wonderful organisations, the Bamber Bridge District Nurses (NHS) team and the Clinical Nurses Specialists from St Catherine’s Hospice. Both teams went above and beyond their normal

professionalism and efficiency to provide support for Rachel and our family on a daily basis, often with humour being the best medicine.

It's fitting that St Catherine’s hospice cared for Rachel during her latter stages of life, as all the family often supported the hospice as very regular visitors to ‘The Mill’ for coffee and cakes, in addition to supporting the hospice in various other ways. 

St Catherine’s Hospice provide care for patients and families who are affected by life-shortening conditions, at the hospice and in people’s own homes across Lancashire. The specialist care they give helps people like Rachel enjoy the best possible quality of life towards the end. It costs more than £5 million to run the hospice each year and they rely on the efforts and generosity of others to help raise the funds they so desperately need. The effect of Covid-19 will have a major impact on the revenue streams for St Catherine’s in the short term, so any donation will have a major positive impact on someone like Rachel, who greatly appreciated the outstanding support at home.

Any donations will help to make a difference and will allow St Catherine’s to continue to work and support those in the times when they need it most.

Feel free to add a memory of your own in the comments and thank you in advanced and we will keep you updated on our fundraising efforts.

Describing how much we will miss Rachel is impossible; although she will remain forever present with our family, friends and all those people whom she has a positive impact on forever - a truly wonderful legacy.

Thank you.

Ian, Claudia and Henry Pearson