Skip Yowell, a co-founder of JanSport, passed away at 69...

2015-10-19T00:00:00

Skip Yowell, a co-founder of JanSport, passed away at 69 on Oct. 13 at his home in Kansas, following an illness. Yowell founded the company in 1967 in Seattle, Washington, together with his cousin, Murray Pletz, and a seamstress, Jan Lewis, to make backpacks for the outdoors. The company went ...

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