When Junetta Byrnina Schwartz was born on 31 May 1868, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Woy Schwartz, was 41 and her mother, Josephine Alexander Plowman, was 27. She married George Benjamin Keckstein on 12 July 1902, in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Harvey, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 20 years. She died on 29 September 1954, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.