Even though Anderson pulled two people from Dirty Butter Creek, he felt guilty that he was unable to save a third person, Bridgette Johnson, from a submerged car that day.
Exactly five years later, on May 27, 1989, in his hometown of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Anderson took Dwight Ogleton Jr. and another boy fishing on the Stones River, which had been bloated by heavy rains.
He died five months shy of his 36th birthday and was buried June 3, 1989, at Green Acres Cemetery north of Tulsa.
The Murfreesboro City Council voted May 15 (2014) to rename Community Circle in the Kimbro Woods subdivision Jerry Anderson Drive.
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