Chicago native Mack “Mini-Mack” Herron used money he made playing professional football to help buy a house for his mother on the city’s West Side in the 1970s.The prospect of losing the home to an alleged reverse mortgage scam may have contributed to his death at age 67 last month, according to relatives.
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The late Mack Herron and his sister Barbara at their family home in January 2015. The prospect of being homeless due to problems with a reverse mortgage his mother had purchased troubled Herron, who died in December at age 67.