Larry Click

Larry Stevon Click passed away on March 4, 2024 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

He was born in 1938 in Mt. Jackson Virginia in the beautiful rolling hills of the Shenandoah Valley to the late Marlin Frederick Click and the late Mary Catherine Moomaw Click.

He graduated from Triplett High School in Mt. Jackson, Virginia and enrolled at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1957. There he earned a B.S. degree in Agricultural Engineering. He also received a Master’s degree in Agricultural Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1964.

Starting in October 1964, he served as an assistant professor (and later associate professor) and Extension Agricultural Engineer at Penn State. In March 1971, he joined the Tennessee Tech University faculty as an associate professor of Agricultural Engineering where he served in varying capacities including serving as the department Chairman from 1976 until the fall of 1980 when he stepped down to focus on what he enjoyed most, advising and teaching students. He loved challenging his students to bring out their best. His students often commented that he was tough but fair. He continued teaching full time until May 2004 when he retired.  Later in his career, he also served as an adjunct faculty member in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department.

He was honored with numerous teaching awards at the department, university and regional/national levels. In 1986, he received the Delta Tau Alpha National Outstanding Teacher/Advisor Award. In 1981 he was given the NACTA Teacher Fellow and Regional Outstanding Teacher Award, and in 2002, he was honored with the NACTA John Deere Award for the Southern Region. He also received numerous awards from students including the 1983 School of Agriculture Students’ Choice Award and the 1987-88, 1989-90, 1993-94, and 1997-98 School of Agriculture “Student Selected” Outstanding Faculty Award. He truly loved having the opportunity to teach and advise students.

He enjoyed restoring antique tractors and was an active member of the Middle Tennessee Antique Engine and Tractor Association. He was a member of the Cookeville Lions Club. He enjoyed teaching land surveying and was a partner in a surveying business for much of his time living in Cookeville.

In his leisure time, he enjoyed many hobbies including leatherwork, woodworking, weaving baskets, building birdhouses, looming rugs and gardening. He thoroughly enjoyed spending time planting and tending his flowerbeds and garden. He also loved spoiling his grandchildren with trips to the Tennessee Tech farm to see the animals along with regular trips for donuts, ice cream and frosties. He was a Tennessee Tech basketball annual ticket holder and rarely missed a home game. His grandkids loved joining him for games when they were able.

He is preceded in death by his wife of 49 years Aliene Bowles Click. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Stephanie Click Ard and Derek Ard of Knoxville, his son and daughter-in-law Dr. Steven Click and Cheryl Saylor Click of Cookeville, and his four grandchildren, Brice and Alyssa Ard and Rachel and Zoe Click.

Graveside services and interment will be held Friday March 22nd at 10 am at Crest Lawn Cemetery in Cookeville. His family will receive friends Thursday March 21st from 5 pm to 7 pm at the Cookeville chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. The public is invited.

Memorial donations may be made to the Larry S. Click Endowed Agriculture scholarship fund c/o

Tennessee Tech University

University Advancement

Larry S Click Endowed Agricultural Scholarship

PO Box 1915

Cookeville, TN 38505

931-372-3206

Make checks payable to TTU Foundation and include “Larry S Click Scholarship (in Memorial)” in the note.

Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. (931)526-6111. Share memories and condolences at www.hhhfunerals.com.