When Barbara Helen Looke was born on 20 October 1923, in Newport, Penobscot, Maine, United States, her father, Hanford Napoleon Looke, was 39 and her mother, Maude Jane Freese, was 34. She married Luther Buford Keller on 1 November 1944, in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine, United States. She lived in Brewer, Penobscot, Maine, United States for about 4 years and Jonesboro Township, Craighead, Arkansas, United States in 1950. She died on 22 August 2010, in Wadsworth, Medina, Ohio, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas, United States.