When Treva Irene Swank was born on 13 November 1907, in Madison Township, Licking, Ohio, United States, her father, Albert Lloyda Swank, was 28 and her mother, Jessie May Montgomery, was 27. She married David Crawford Keeling on 14 June 1952, in Franklin, Ohio, United States. She lived in Clinton, Knox, Ohio, United States in 1920 and Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. She died on 8 June 1979, in Franklin, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Worthington, Franklin, Ohio, United States.