Bell, Edward Wyatt-Age 64. Passes away, November 2nd, 2015 at his home in Wellington, FL. Born in Nashville, TN, Mr. Bell was the founder and president of Landtech Data Corporation. A company that provides settlement software for the title insurance and real estate industry. Edward started working in the title industry at a young age completing settlement statements after hours for his father, William Wyatt Bell, who was a real estate attorney in Michigan. After attending Michigan State in the early 1970s, Edward eventually went on to found two title companies before starting Landtech. His vision and dedication to improving the closing process has been realized by thousands of agents all across the United States. With the dawn of the computer age, Edward envisioned creating a software package geared towards the Title Insurance and Closing Industry. Landtech's system launched on the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I computer. This first system had no lower-case characters or color. It had only 32K of memory with two floppy drives. Much of the internal system and the programming were written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. This was seven years before Microsoft would go public and more than two years prior to the introduction of the IBM PC, which would revolutionize the workplace. Edward Wyatt Bell programmed the first closing software package on the market, the Landtech Real Estate Settlement System. He eventually sold a system in 1979 for $395. It's been said that he chose this price, because he could pay it back if it didn't work. After 36 year in business, Landtech is now utilized by closing agents on over 10,000 desktops. Mr. Bell was also an avid pilot during his free time. He was one of only 200 pilots in the world to have an Airline Transport Pilot License for helicopter and fixed wing. Mr. Bell is survived by his loving wife, Diana Bell; Children: Justin Wyatt Bell, Benjamin Wyatt Bell, Alice Annette Bell, Dorothy Elizabeth Bell and John Overton Bell; his loving Mother, Dorothy I. Bell, Brother, Dwight Bell and his wife Angelia Bell and sister, Thursday Bell and Husband John Knight. Memorial for my Edward Wyatt Bell will be held at 5:30 p.m. ET, Saturday, November 14 at Palms West Funeral Home, 110 Business Park Way, Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411.
