A giant of a man, Harry Todd has died, and arrangements remain incomplete at King’s Funeral Home in Cadiz.
He was 87 years old.
A former high-school basketball star at Earlington, Todd earned All-State boys’ basketball honors three consecutive years, culminating into “Mr. Basketball” honors in 1958. The 6-foot-8 standout finished as the state’s all-time leading career rebounder.
From 1959-62, he was Western Kentucky University’s top rebounder, and later became a WKU Athletics Hall of Fame inductee in 2022.
In 1962, Todd was selected in the NBA Draft by the St. Louis Hawks, which later moved to Atlanta, and was also drafted in the U.S. Army the same year, following the escalation of the Vietnam War.
His military career had longer legs, spanning three decades and included multiple overseas assignments. He rose to Command Sergeant Major at Fort Campbell’s Army Garrison, and twice received the Legion of Merit. During the early 1970s, he also played basketball internationally for the U.S. military teams.
After retiring from the Army, Todd remained in Trigg County from 1991 until his death.
He served as tourism director for Cadiz-Trigg County and as a Methodist minister in Livingston County.
In the fall of 2025, and at the recommendation of close friends Chappell Wilson and Trigg County Judge-Executive Stan Humphries, Todd was nominated, and then selected, for the Kentucky Veterans’ Hall of Fame — becoming the first resident of Trigg County to receive the honor.
Prior to his enshrinement, Todd said he had “no regrets” about his career path back to west Kentucky.
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