LaVerne Nuss served in the Army's 1st Infantry, 18th Regiment, K Company. He was stationed for a time in Fort Lewis, Washington, and then Kansas City, Missouri. He was an MP in Kansas City assisting troop movement through Kansas City's Union Station. He was also stationed at a POW camp as a prisoner guard. He shipped to Europe in 1944 some time after D-Day. He fought in Germany and was part of the mortar squad. He was in Czechoslovakia when the war in Europe ended. He remained stationed in Germany for a year or so after the war. He returned to the USA in 1946 and was honorably discharged. Upon his return to Kansas, he started farming near where he grew up in southeast Russell County. He married Estella Crabtree in 1948 and raised four sons. He became a successful farmer/stockman. He grew wheat and milo and had a cow/calf operation. He was active in the Russell County Conservation Board, the Dorrance, Kansas Co-op, Dorrance school board, and the Dorrance Lutheran Church.