Monday, April 20, 2020
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Dwight Bittick will always be remembered as the one who found the man Mark Belt of Mark Belt, Texas, thereby solving one of the great mysteries of Pearland history. Mark Belt was the original name of the town that was later christened Pear Land by Witold Zychlinski. The question was whether Mark Belt was a man or simply a railroad term, and Dwight's extensive research discovered the man in the Galveston Daily News of March 16, 1887 which noted the registration at the Tremont Hotel of Mark Belt of Mark Belt, Texas. I first met Dwight in 1956 when he was a freshman left fielder for the Pearland Oiler high school baseball team and I was in the third grade and served as the bat boy. Years later, when Dwight and I worked together on writing Pearland history, he was always supportive and encouraging, but the greatest compliment I received from Dwight was when he said I was the best bat boy ever. That meant more to me than anything. I will miss him and I offer my condolences to Cecelia and the rest of his family. He was one of God's better efforts.
