Vernie Royce Moenning, age 90, of Electra, Texas, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family Sunday, December 22, 2024, in Electra Memorial Hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, December 27, 2024, at the First Baptist Church of Electra with Rev. Bob Lee, Pastor of First United Methodist Church of Electra, officiating.  Interment will follow in Electra Memorial Park under the direction of Aulds Funeral Home of Electra.

The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Thursday, December 26, 2024, at Aulds Funeral Home of Electra.

Vernie was born November 12, 1934 in Colorado Springs, Colorado to the late Otto John Moenning and Ruby Crow Moenning.

He was a 1954 graduate of Prairie Valley High School.

Vernie married Millie York on June 24, 1955 in Nocona, Texas.

Right out of high school, he began working for Big State Well Service in Bowie.  He transferred to Sherman, Texas and then finally to the Electra Branch in 1961, where he and Millie made their home and raised their family.

In 1968, Vernie started his own business, Vernie's Well Service.  He owned and operated that business for 56 years.

Vernie was a hard worker.  Growing up, work was all he knew and that continued throughout his entire life, working many long hard days.

He loved horses and mules.  Vernie, along with his best friends at the time, Don Seale and Edgar Eakin, formed a mule riders club in Electra and also put on the first all-mule rodeo in Texas.  Vernie raised the world champion three year old futurity mule, Dexter and was a member of the American Mule Association, where he enjoyed racing mules.  He was a team roper and pick-up guy in the rodeos.  Vernie was President of the Electra Riding Club, a member of the Electra Masonic Lodge and a former director for the Electra Chamber of Commerce.  In the words of his family, Vernie did it all.

Survivors include his wife of nearly seventy years, Millie Moenning of Electra; one daughter, Joy Crowley and husband, Steve of Jolly; one son, Danny Joe Moenning and wife, Jackie of Idalou; two sisters, Reva Dishman of Nocona and Sharon Miller and husband, Lee of Saint Jo; eight grandchildren, Ryan Raschke and wife, Karianna, Justin Moenning and wife, Ashley, Randi Sims and husband, Brandon, Dani Stephens and husband, Scott, Megan Goins and husband, Cody, Cody Joe Moenning and wife, Amber, Garrett Moenning and wife, Harley and Amber Williams and husband, Russell; twenty great-grandchildren, Jessi, Jayli, Colton, Berkli, Brogan, Brazos, Rylan, Kyndal, Kree, Indie, Stoney, Caylee, Baylee, Haylee, Aubri, Landon, Quade, Brex, Kaisley and Kallie; and a lot of other family members and countless friends.

He was also preceded in death by one son, Mark Wayne Moenning on December 11, 2010; three brothers, Herman, Herbert and Nelson; and one sister, Maxine.

The family suggests memorials to the First United Methodist Church of Electra, P.O. Box 846, Electra, Texas 76360 or Electra Senior Citizens Center, 503 West Michigan Ave., Electra, Texas 76360.