Born on April 4, 1928, in Grand Prairie, TX to Jose Reyna and Isabel Esquivel. He spent his childhood at the Ranch, El Cuate, in Michoacan, Mexico. At the age of 16, he came to the U.S. to work in the mines and later worked in agriculture and marries his first wife Dolores Martinez who he had 5 beautiful children with. After the untimely passing of his first wife, he was a single Dad for 7 years. He then married his second wife, Carolina Alvarez to which he had 30 years of marriage before her passing.
Jesus Reyna is survived by his 5 children, Yolanda, Carolina, Enedina, Isabell, and Joe, 20 Grand-Children, 38 Great Grand-Children, 13 Great-Great Grand-Children; as well as his brother Luis Reyna, and two sisters Graciela Hernandez and Antonia Bucio.