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==Personal life and death==
Fassel met his wife Kitty when they were 17 year old college freshmen in 1967. Fassel was at Fullerton Community College, while Kitty was a student at Cal-State Fullerton. Two years later, in April 1969, Kitty gave birth to a son, the product of an unplanned pregnancy. The young parents were both 19 years old and unmarried. They considered marrying due to the pregnancy, but did not want to make a decision under pressure. They did not consider aborting the child. Instead they gave him up for adoption when he was three days old, and subsequently lost touch with him.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/sports/pro-football-34-years-later-one-coach-s-sweetest-victory.html</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/2003/05/17/fassel-wife-meet-son-34-years-after-giving-him-up-for-adoption/6e961b42-f368-4e2c-af50-c243d4cd3750/</ref>
Fassel and his wife Kitty divorced in 2006 after years of counseling,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/sports/football/jim-fassel-still-waiting-for-second-chance-as-an-nfl-coach.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all | title=Years Later, Still Waiting for a Second Chance | first=Sam | last=Borden | date=December 15, 2011 | work=The New York Times | access-date=January 20, 2019}}</ref> but later reconciled and remarried.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.giants.com/news-and-blogs/article-1/Exploring-the-legacy-of-former-coach-Jim-Fassel/a71346ea-7986-4688-b569-542a24f7d565 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221081104/http://www.giants.com/news-and-blogs/article-1/Exploring-the-legacy-of-former-coach-Jim-Fassel/a71346ea-7986-4688-b569-542a24f7d565 |archive-date=2015-02-21 |title=Exploring the legacy of former coach Jim Fassel}}</ref> They are the parents of [[John Fassel]], who is also a football coach. They had four other children. One was placed for adoption before they were married; they were reunited with him in 2003.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/sports/pro-football-34-years-later-one-coach-s-sweetest-victory.html | title=PRO FOOTBALL: 34 Years Later, One Coach's Sweetest Victory | first=Bill | last=Pennington | date=May 16, 2003 | work=The New York Times | access-date=January 20, 2019}}</ref>▼
Two years later, in 1971, Jim and Kitty married.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/sports/pro-football-34-years-later-one-coach-s-sweetest-victory.html</ref><ref>https://www.giants.com/news/exploring-the-legacy-of-former-coach-jim-fassel-14929627</ref>
In 2003, after years of searching, the Fassels found the child whom they had put up for adoption. They had a family reunion, which included the Fassels and their other four adult children, together with their now-34 year old adopted son, John Mathieson, who brought along his own wife and their four young daughters.<ref>https://www.theledger.com/story/news/2003/05/26/ny-giants-coach-jim-fassel-and-his-wife-kitty-reunite-with-son-they-gave-up-34-years-ago/26052833007/</ref><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/sports/pro-football-34-years-later-one-coach-s-sweetest-victory.html</ref>
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Fassel was good friends with fellow coach [[Mike Holmgren]], dating to their days as USC quarterbacks.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/sports/pro-football-giants-notebook-fassel-and-holmgren-remember-the-good-ol-days.html | title=PRO FOOTBALL – GIANTS NOTEBOOK: Fassel and Holmgren Remember the Good Ol' Days | first=Bill | last=Pennington | date=December 22, 2001 | work=The New York Times | access-date=January 20, 2019}}</ref>
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