Kala Christine Brown, 17, of Kennesaw died on January 2, 2007 when her vehicle was forced off of the road by another vehicle. Born in Bartow County on January 26, 1989, she was the daughter of Timmy R. Brown of Cartersville and Teri Race of Kennesaw. Kala was a senior at North Cobb High School where she was involved in many activities including softball, track and field, the mentoring program for other teenagers, Women of Destiny, chorus, the Class of 2007 Activities, the Principals Advisory Board, and the Adventure Club. Kala was also named 2003-2004 Who’s Who Among American High School Students. She had been accepted to Kennesaw State University, Georgia Southern and the State University of West Georgia. Kala had planned to attend Kennesaw State University and pursue a degree in Psychiatry with an emphasis on counseling children and teenagers. She was preceded in death by her maternal grandmother, Christine Stiles; and by her paternal grandparents, Joe and Bernice Brown.

Survivors include her mother and step-father, Teri and Roger Race of Kennesaw; her father and step-mother, Timmy R. Brown and Pamela Brown of Cartersville; her brother, Torrey David Brown; her step-brothers, Patrick Wilkerson and Robert Arnold, both of Cartersville; her step-sister, Kimberly Mason; her uncles and aunts, Garry and Brenda Cochran of Cartersville, Kirby Brown, Ted and Lois Brown, Joe and Nancy Brown, Jerry and Chaine Brown, Zelma and Bill Burnette, Wilma and Ed Petras, Rita and Don Stephens, Peggy and Steve Shinall, and Donna Williams; and other relatives and friends too numerous to mention.

Kala and 3 friends were out on the way to go bowling. As they were entering I-575 North from Barrett Pkwy, she lost control of her brand new Toyota Scion, ran off the road, the car flipped landing on it's top. Kala and a young man in the backseat behind her were both killed. Life will never be the same, for anyone that knew her. She had the most beautiful smile the world was ever blessed with!

By telling all that I have so far, I realized that you don't get to know her very well. She would attract the attention of everyone in a room when she entered it. It was because she had a love for people and not of herself. She was an amazing young woman that just wanted to reach out and help those that she felt she could do the most good with. Children!Though she was taken way to soon in life, she left enough love and kindness from the ripples of life in the ocean she lived in. There's a little 9 year old girl who can now see due to her unselfish act of being an organ donor. I challenge all who read this to seriously consider becoming an organ donor if you're not one already. Let your life make more of a difference than what you think you are. Kala was headstrong, determined, and always ready and willing to give her opinion on any given subject. Cause she wanted to be heard, she wanted to be a part of life that wouldn't fade away. The greatness that she could have achieved in life is beyond measure. But the lives she enriched in life, as well as in her death goes a lot deeper than that. All my love and thank you, daddy.