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Shortly before the start of the twentieth
century Frank migrated from the Austrian

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area of Europe and first settled into
St Louis Missouri area where he became

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a cigar maker later he moved to Waco and
in eighty ninety five married the former

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madam ATSIC and started

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a full line bakery like many immigrants
whose names were foreign and hard to

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pronounce he dropped the Vienna last name
and became Frank Keating and at point on

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the bakery would be known
as the Keaton bakery from

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a building on South Third Street at major
would become the main paper company to

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keep news baked

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a variety of breads in pastries that were
shipped by train and wagon to stores all

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across Texas in one thousand seventeen
move the bakery to seven twelve also have

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a near one of the busiest
parts of downtown Waco on

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a Friday of the grand opening Frank Keating
was to meet with his insurance agent to

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write

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a fire policy on the location but because
the grand opening attracted so many people

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the agent was told to come back on Monday
Ironically the building burned on Sunday

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after several months of delay
it was reopened and soon became

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a major attraction following Frank's deaf
in one thousand and thirty nine his son

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and Frankie Jr took over the business and
ran it along with his mother Mattie until

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his death in one thousand forty eight his
brother William Edward Bill Keaton SR

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renamed the bakery Mrs Keaton's bakeshop
added he retired and later died in one

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nine hundred sixty three for many years
patrons of the small shop thought that shop

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employees while Brock was Mrs keep although
she was the daughter of Isaac Brock the

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oldest resident of the.
Planet Katty who lived for

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a reported one hundred twenty two years she
greeted customers with the same special

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smile passed on to her Mrs Keith as they
came to the shop for cakes Reds and

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delicacies like Mrs Keaton's famous creampuffs
although they were originally called

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Caramel Klaus their reputation continues
to today in the minds of those who savored

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a rich delicacy soem what happened to the
recipe for these amazing creations after

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Bill Keaton decided to close the doors
to the small bakery in one thousand nine

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hundred one went downtown lost its popularity
at a mall and urban shopping centers

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a local bake shop asked to buy the recipe
but they refused to pay the reported

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fifteen hundred dollar price Bill was
asking that same year the Charles dinner

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a company in Dallas who provided the
flavoring for the cream puffs went out of

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business so the recipe long with Bill
Keaton died in nineteen eighty nine.