Georgia College lecturer and brother killed in Milledgeville crash

Georgia College faculty member Allison Everett was nearly home when she and her brother suffered fatal injuries in a collision late Monday night.

Everett, 51, of Milledgeville, was in the front passenger seat and her 54-year-old brother, David Black, was in the back seat as her husband was behind the wheel of a 2014 Nissan Altima.

The exercise sciences lecturer at Georgia College also has been an adjunct professor for a dozen years at Georgia Military College.

“GMC grieves her loss,” said Jill Robbins, vice president of human resources. “She was so full of life, bright energy. Just fun.”

When Robbins first heard of Everett’s death, she assumed the active mother of three adult children might have been hit riding her bicycle or running down the road.

For the past five years, Everett has signed up for the GMC triathlon and has always been active in the Milledgeville community, Robbins said.

At about 11:45 p.m. Monday, her husband, Kenneth Everett, was driving north on Lake Laurel Road in Baldwin County, toward their home, when they were hit head-on by a 2005 Acura TSX headed south, according to a Georgia State Patrol news release.

Troopers are investigating how the driver of the Acura, 29-year-old Brandon Hurst of North Augusta, South Carolina, collided with the Everetts’ car.

Skid marks in the 300 block of the highway veer into the northbound lane near Georgia College’s Lake Laurel outside of Milledgeville.

The Everett family went off the east shoulder and down an embankment. Pink flags mark where the Altima went into the ditch.

The collision spun the Acura in the road and it was hit by a 1996 Mazda B2300 traveling behind the Everetts, the GSP release stated.

The siblings died at the scene. Kenneth Everett, 54, was airlifted to Medical Center, Navicent Health, with broken bones.

Hurst was taken by ambulance to the Macon hospital.

The driver of the Mazda, 27-year-old Wayne Reese from Loganville, suffered minor injuries and was not hospitalized, the release stated.

Georgia College was on fall break Tuesday, but issued a statement about the death of the woman who had been a member of the faculty since 1991.

“Georgia College is saddened by the tragic loss of Allison Everette,” the statement read.

The college plans to have counselors available Wednesday from 4-5 p.m. in the Health Sciences Building for students and faculty grieving Everett’s death.

“A tragic loss on a close-knit campus such as ours impacts many members of the campus community,” the college’s statement read.

Robbins said Everett had just bumped into dozens of friends at last week’s football battle between GMC and John Milledge Academy.

“She showed up for any kind of event in Milledgeville,” Robbins said.

Everett’s impact on others was obvious by accolades left on her Facebook page by friends and family.

“She always found something nice to say and you always left her presence feeling like you were her very favorite person in the world,” a church member wrote.

Her daughter, Kacey Everett Brown, said she realizes her mother is going to be missed by most of the community.

As Robbins put it, “I think if you knew her as a fitness instructor, she would be the most encouraging, energetic person you could find. If she was your friend’s mom, she was just the best. She was everybody’s mom... the best qualities all rolled into one and she was beautiful to boot.”

This story was originally published October 11, 2016 at 8:15 AM with the headline "Georgia College lecturer and brother killed in Milledgeville crash."