[2] For much of her early childhood, Carne lived in a four-room canvas tent within the borders of the Amamoor Forest Reserve while her father worked on a local reforestation project.

[2] She lived with relatives in Gympie while in high school and returned home to her family on the weekends.

[1] Bil Keane was a United States Army promotional artist who drew posters and flyers for the war effort.

[3] Cartoonist Bil Keane later spoke of meeting Thelma in the office saying, "Thel was a very pretty 18-year-old with a gorgeous figure, long brown hair and I just happened to have a desk drawing next to her and I got the nerve to ask her out.

[3] Thelma Keane worked as the full-time financial and business manager for her husband while he continued to draw The Family Circus.

[1] Her family credited Thelma's business skills as the main reason that Bil Keane became one of the first syndicated newspaper cartoonists in the country to regain the full rights to his comic.

[1] Thelma Keane died at the age of 82 at the Barton House assisted living facility in Paradise Valley, Arizona on May 23, 2008.