[1] Born on the lower east side of Manhattan in New York City, Gladys Brown had two sisters, Barbara and Connie, who she enjoyed traveling with in her later years.
Following her marriage, she accompanied her military husband, started a family and established their household in various locations, including Germany, Colorado, Massachusetts, and Texas.
In 1979, Keating won the Fairfax Human Rights Commission award, and received the Annandale Business and Professional Women's Club honored her as its woman of the year in 1977.
[2] After a series of strokes in 2006, and the death of her husband in 2003, Keating spent her final years near Wilmington, North Carolina, near some of her children and grandchildren.
After a service at Olivet Episcopal Church, where Keating long served as lay reader, she was interred at Arlington National Cemetery beside her husband.