Alan died on Nov. 5, 1974 on a country road in the Burley area. He was riding with two other classmates. The vehicle caught a shoulder while passing another car and rolled throwing Alan halfway out. He was the only person who died.

Alan is survived by his parents, Barbara and Richard (who still live in Burley), his sister - Julie Kerbs (Yandell) and his brother Paul, who both currently reside in Boise, Idaho.

There was once a bird they say

A golden, glorious, fiery bird

And soaring in his silent untouchable sanctity

He at last felt that he was all that he could be

And hearing of wind and storm and thunder and rain

And wanting to live

He came

A golden, fiery bird, they say

Came out of the stars and out of the clouds

Breathing air reveling in his boundless nature

He sailed lonely canyons

He felt the crashing sea

He beat the wind and storm and thunder and rain

And was all that he could be

And lived

Ah, but no cages

No lasting graves

When the dark red dusk set across the desert.

He considered that he was part of old

But how could he go home now, being not what he was

But what he was now,

No, out of the ashes rose a new bird

Beyond the sky, beyond the stars

Nothing could touch him now

And upon seeing the sun leaving

He set about to catcht it.

by Paul Jones

(Printed on page 162 "In Memory Of Alan Kerbs" of the 1975 Burley High School year book.)