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Back in Comanche County, Reese graduated at sixteen from Gustine High School and enrolled at the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, for two years before transferring to the [[University of Texas at Austin]], where in 1951 he obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The next year, he procured the [[Master of Arts]] from [[Northwestern University]] in Evanston, [[Illinois]]. Both degrees were in the then new field of radio and television [[broadcasting]]. From 1953 to 1955, he served in the [[United States Air Force]] and was stationed mostly in [[San Antonio]], Texas, and [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], and at the former Reese (coincidental name) Air Force Base in [[Lubbock]], Texas. He also made a brief military sojourn to [[Tripoli]], [[Libya]].<ref>Reese, p. 128.</ref>
Reese was married until her death to the former Jayne Damron (May 31, 1930 – March 21, 2016), the daughter of Joe Sam Damron and the former Colleen Tidwell. Born in [[Amarillo]] and reared in Muleshoe] in Bailey County, she Jayne graduated from Muleshoe High School and attended [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]], Texas, and the University of Texas at Austin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hubbard-kelly.tributes.com/dignitymemorial/obituary/Frances-Jayne-Reese-103416638|title=Jayne Damron Reese|publisher=Hubbard-Kelly.tributes.com|accessdate=October 26, 2018}}</ref>
Their daughter, Greta Jayne Reese Rigney (born 1954), resides in Midland. Her husband, William R. Rigney, Jr. (1945-2013), was a native of [[Oakland]], [[California]], who worked in both baseball management, which brought him to Midland, and then the oil business. He died at the age of sixty-eight of [[Alzheimer's disease]]. There are three Rigney sons, Jim Reese's grandsons.<ref>William "Bill" Rigney obituary, ''The Odessa American,'', December 1, 2013.</ref> The Reeses' son, James Rockney "Rocky" Reese (born 1956) lives in Horseshoe Bay near Austin, Texas. A second daughter, Lori Jan Reese (1962-2011) resided until her death in Abilene at the Abilene State School for special-needs persons.<ref>Reese, pp. 130, 148.</ref>
==Broadcasting career==
