"My life is not my own, to you I belong, I give myself to you."

On March 16, 2022 Claudia Renee was given her wings to fly from her earthly life to her heavenly home. She was born December 6, 1964 to Elmer Lewis Carper and the late Mary C. English. In addition to her mother, she was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Henry and Madge Robinson and her paternal grandparents, Joseph and Claudia Carper.

Renee was educated in Bedford County, VA; she graduated from Liberty High School.

She accepted Christ at an early age and joined Antioch Baptist Church in the Peaksville Community. She was a member of the choir. Upon moving to Lynchburg she joined Rivermont Baptist Church where she continued singing on the choir. Renee was employed at Campbell's Nursing Home in Bedford, VA and the Williams Home in Lynchburg, VA. She worked until her health prevented her.

Renee was a loving daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, aunt, cousin and friend to many. She had a great passion for music, especially gospel. She loved to sing and travel to hear different gospel groups. She had an unbreakable love for her son and her grandchildren.

Precious and loving memories are left to her son, Frank Christopher Carper of Bedford, VA; her father, Elmer Lewis Carper (Carol) of Hopewell, VA; two grandchildren, Shamiya Marie and Jayden Omar Johnson; one brother, Delano Prescott Carper and one sister, Sherree S. O'brien (Edmund); five aunts, Myrtle Leftwich, Rosa Carson (Robert), Brenda Robinson, Ann Robinson and Phyllis Robinson; two nephews, Adrian Durell Thompson and Toddrick Shane Stith; one great-nephew, Zyaire Erazeis Adrian Thompson; all of Bedford, VA; special friends, Steve Anderson and Brenda Claytor; as well as a host of other relatives and friends.