Background
Price was born to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Price, Sr., in rural Reading in Lyon County in eastern Kansas. He was educated in the Reading public schools and in 1951 received his bachelor's degree from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. After graduation, he married the former Martha A. "Marty" White.
From 1951 to 1955, Price served in the United States Air Force. He flew twenty-seven combat missions during the Korean War and received the Air Medal.
The Prices moved to Texas after his discharge from the Air Force. Throughout his adult life, he owned and operated a ranch near Pampa, the seat of Gray County, located northeast of Amarillo. The ranch was located in portions of four counties and had been in the Price family since 1907.
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