When Norbert Joseph Keaveny was born in 1909, in Portage, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Michael H Keaveny, was 44 and his mother, Mary Agnes Donahue, was 41. He married Jean Dixon Kyhl on 1 October 1936, in Waukon, Allamakee, Iowa, United States. He died in 1955, in Portage, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Saint Marys Cemetery, Portage, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States.