Keith's birth will always be remembered by his mother, Zella McMullin Quivey, and conveyed to anyone who'd listen, that it is better to follow a doctor's advice and accept his judgement as to which is necessary to bring a baby into the world. The doctor desired to use some "instruments" to assist the birth which his mother turned down. The result was near death and some brain and nerve damage that ultimately disfigured Keith's right side. His first three days of life were touch and go as he continually went into "spasms" during that time. Throughout his mother's diary, there are continual references to Keith being a "backward" or "delicate, weak baby." He wasn't able to walk until he was four and had trouble with stuttering. He started school at age 7 and there are many references of visits to osteopaths. At age 15 he stood 4 feet 11 inches and weighed 73 pounds.

In 1908 he and his family moved from Osmond to Cozad, Nebraska where his father accepted a principalship of the local school for $125 per month. By 1912 he found himself in Lincoln where his father attended the University of Nebraska as a student, and three years later, Keith, at age 15, ended up in Salt Lake City, Utah where his father became a professor of English at the local university.

Keith entered the University of Utah and graduated from there in 1926 in Business which shows that although he may have been lacking in loco-motor ability, his intellect wasn't affected. At the time Keith graduated, there was a certain amount of discrimination in the business world in hiring physically handicapped persons. As a result, Keith could not obtain a good job, and instead, went to work for his father, managing all the financial and business transactions for him.

On 9 January 1931, Keith took sick with a stomach ache which blossomed into a ruptured appendix two days later on the operating table at Saint Mark's Hospital. Within a week he died of complications from that ailment.

Received from Michael Wilson of Salt Lake City, Utah on 12 March 1997