Joe David Lacy:  

I attended Las Cruces & Mayfield High school. I was a hot rodder thanks to Joe Miller and his help with my obsession with Ford flat head engines. Thanks to Pat Gallagher and Eddy Harrison, I had a 33 Plymouth with suicide doors that I mounted on a chopped Ford chassis. It looked like one of those old monster drag race cartoons. (pictured as Heap of the week in the school paper). Drove a 55 yellow Cadillac, (mostly to Mayfield) and later a 59 Desoto with fins. Still have the Cadillac. I played football until a bout with pneumonia put me to far behind. I was a member of a rock & roll garage band called the Heatwaves, with Daryl Harwood, Steve Hartman, Skip Samford, Bob Buckman, Jerry Short, & Gloria Harwood. That band was a blast. We played mostly at teen centers, White Sands, & parties. I am now married to my wonderful wife Susie, (previously Susie Herring) for many years. I have 3 children of my own ; Pearie, Melissa, and Joseph. I am Papa Joe to my wife Susie's children; David, Corrine, and Itsy. I have Three grandchildren of my own; Veronica, Michael, and Max, and I am also grandfather ie Papa Joe, to Susies grandkids; Maranda, Corinne Kathleen, Billy, Bobby, and Mathew, and a great granpa to; Caiden, Xavier, & Nathan Danger. My Career since high school has been my college education, as I only went to formal college at UTEP, & Western New Mexico, for a couple of years. I worked in the oilfields as a welders helper & roustabout, drove a concrete truck for Certified Concrete, then accepted an opportunity to become an apprentice adobe home builder & apprentice carpenter with my first father in law Felipe Lopez. After Felipe's untimely passing, I operated heavy equipment for Burns Construction where we put in the infrastructure for the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Ruidoso. I then moved to Idaho Falls after the Teton Dam disaster operated heavy equipment, & got to travel all over Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, & explored Yellowstone Park every chance I got. I came back to Cruces and drove fuel tankers for EB Law, Whitfield and Steere tank lines. I found trucking boring so I partnered with my Dad & brother Steve, built a drilling rig & became a commercial water well driller (license (WD671). I then became a union journeyman plasterer where I was part of a team that worked on many high rise buildings where we manufactured precast composite SteelCrete panels, (invented by Tony Ruiz a native Las Crucen) and EIFS panels, and installed them on high rise steel and concrete frameworks in Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. I came back to Las Cruces and worked in partnership with Adobe Artisans as a contractor and built several adobe, and rammed earth homes around Las Cruces and Old Mesilla. The experience with the union led me to a finishing specialty as a plastering contractor. From what I learned as a plasterer & Adobe home builder, helped me in my research and eventual development of new eco ...Expand for more