Duluth, MN - Richard (Rick) Ward Towey died at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth on Sunday September 18th. He was 82. Rick was born in Rochester, MN to Richard L. and Mary (Starkey) Towey. He graduated from Rochester High School in 1958, then from St. Louis University in St. Louis, MO in 1962. He joined the National Guard and was stationed at Fort Polk, LA. He went on to the University of MN Law School and received his J.D. in 1966. He practiced law in Rochester until 1997 when he moved to Duluth, where he focused his practice on Mediation & Arbitration until his retirement in 2004.