Trapper Keepers are pictured in promotional images shared by Mead in 2021 when the company relaunched them for the school year. (Credit: Mead) E.
Bryant Crutchfield, a paper company executive who created the Trapper Keeper popular with students throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, has died, according to multiple reports.
He was 85. Crutchfield died on Aug. 21, at a hospice center in Marietta, Georgia, the New York Times reported. His son, Kenneth, told the newspaper that the cause was bone cancer.
The Trapper Keeper, first invented by Crutchfield for employer Mead Corp. in the late 1970s, rose to become one of the most iconic school supplies for middle school and high school students.