Remembering: Richard “Dick” Siegel

Dick was orphaned at age 11 and grew up with his brothers in Mount Vernon, NY. He served in the U.S. Navy as Lieutenant (j.g.) on the minesweeper USS Hopkins in the Pacific during WWII. He attended Antioch College ("heaven on earth" he called it) on the GI Bill where he met and married a coed from Minneapolis, Libby Epstein, in 1949.

In 1950, after earning his J.D. at the University of Chicago (Law Review), Dick moved with Libby to Minneapolis. He began his law career and helped build an exemplary civil practice with Siegel, Brill, Greupner, Duffy & Foster P.A., retiring after 47 formidable years as an attorney.

Whether on his bicycle, windsurfer, skis, or Gravely tractor, traveling the world, or strolling between the sauna and Rogers Lake at the cabin he adored, Dick embraced life completely. His openhearted love for his family meant we all basked in his genuine joy, pride and affection.

He relished studying Shakespeare and attending opera, symphony orchestra and theatre performances with Libby. He reveled in discussing life plans and current events with his children, swimming and laughing with his grandchildren, arguing politics, chopping wood, and engaging in the company and conversation with friends. His life motto, 'leap first, look later,' inspired gravity-defying adventures.