Joe Delk

Diane and I live in Las Cruces, NM and have been married for a little over 40 years.  I grew up with my sister Linda (Cox) and my brother Jimmy on the family ranch east of Santa Rita, NM. 

Diane is the former Diane Graveline of Deming, NM.  Her father and mother, A.D. “Gravie” and Gean Graveline owned and operated Deming Rexall Drug for many years.

We raised our three sons Neal, Mark and Byron on the 2C Ranch east of Hurley, NM and moved to Las Cruces in 1988.

I’ve been the wagon boss for The Delk Band for twenty-five years and estimate that the boys and I have played for eight to nine hundred dances since we started on July 10, 1984 not counting the three years the boys played professionally on the road as “The Delk Brothers Band”. 

Today, I am a Sales Representative for ADM Alliance Nutrition and have been selling livestock feed for twenty-five years.   Diane is retired from the banking world and keeps the books for us.