AP - Good Samaritan helps seller at auction

Good Samaritan helps seller at auction

DALLAS (AP) _ A woman distraught over losing her house showed up to watch it auctioned off, but that wasn't the end of the story.

Tracy Orr will return home after a stranger bought the house back for her Saturday.

``It means so much to all of us,'' Orr said. ``It's not just a house.''

Marilyn Mock said she decided on the spot to buy the house after striking up a conversation with a sobbing Orr at the auction. Mock was there to help her 27-year-old son bid on a house.

Mock successfully bid $30,000 for Orr's house in Pottsboro. Orr will make payments to her once the deal is finalized.

``She needed help. That was it,'' Mock said. ``I just happened to be there and anybody else would have done the same thing.''

Orr had bought the house for $80,000 in 2004 but fell behind on her payments.