Emil Joe Ermis, 93 of Vernon, Texas died on Saturday, August 13, 2022, in Vernon, Texas.

Graveside service will be Wednesday August 17, 2022 at 10:00 am at Wilbarger Memorial Park under the direction of Sullivan Funeral Home.

Joe was born Friday, February 8, 1929 in Burkburnett, Texas, he was the son of the late Adolph Ermis and the late Anna Belle Vanek Ermis, later they moved to Vernon then to Farmers Valley then back to Vernon where he graduated from high school in 1948. He worked for E.S. Lacy & Hamrick Grocery Store  from June 1946 till 1969 when he bought the store from E.S. Lacy and named it Joe's Food Store. He married Betty Blake Griffith in 1963 after many years of operating Joe's Food Store they sold the store and bought a motorhome and traveled for three years before moving back to Vernon in 2000. He enjoyed traveling, yard work and work shop.

Joe is survived by his by his wife Betty Ermis of the home his step-children Cecelia Chism and husband Curtis of Vernon, TX.,  Bruce Griffith and wife Lisa of Millsap, TX, and Valerie Ann Cochran and husband Steve of Duncan, OK; 8 grandchildren; twenty great grandchildren and Eight great-great grandchildren and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Memorials can be made to Wilbarger County Humane Society.