Sandra L. Kearse-Stockton hails from York, Pennsylvania. She was born Sandra Lee Smallwood in 1949, one of seven siblings. She is the author of the Trilogy, “480 Codorus Street.”  Surviving Unpredictability, Trials and Tribulations and Endurance. At the age of 19, she witnessed her first husband being shot and thus became a 19-year-old widow with children. She served in the U.S. Army / Air Force and National Guard for 30 years and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel.  She later married her second husband and has been married to Aaron Stockton for fifty-plus years, a 20-year retired Air Force veteran. She is the mother of four children and her youngest son, her baby boy was murdered on Easter April 2007. They have several grands and great-grands and somehow through it all Sandra managed to collect three college degrees along the way. Together they have fostered over 100 children in the Washington, DC, Virginia, and Maryland areas for 26 years and were foster parents of the year several times. February 1992, while stationed in South Korea she lost her mother and sister in a tragic house file in the US back at home. She is a fighter and feels her strength doubled when she met Aaron E. Stockton while he was stationed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

In May 2023, she was the recipient of the Four Chaplains Legion of Honor Award in York, Pennsylvania and also received an honorary award from the Pennsylvania State Senate by Senator Kristin Phillips-Hill, in 2023.

As of July 30, 2024, her life story is displayed in the York County Pennsylvania History Museum, an amazing honor of of her military service.

During the COVID-19 pandemic timeline when everything seemed to have shut down, she and her husband were doing book signings by driving from state to state signing books for fans while sitting in their yards or on front porches with masks on. Trying not to let the world shut down my life and bring joy to others just to communicate with them. People needed some normalcy and she tried to give it to them during the book signing road trips.

Her dream of telling her story in books came true.  She has also published a book with Aaron, "There is Always Room for One More and book with her babygirl, "Runaway Train, The Conductor is Still On Board. Her 480 Codorus Trilogy books can be signed out at the York Pennsylvana memorial Library!

When she is not writing in her home office or kitchen, Sandra spends most of her time watching old black and white movies, going to the movies with hubby, driving from state to state signing books for her readers, recording her YouTube episodes, sending positive TikTok and Instagram messages and talking on the phone with family or friends. Yes, she still has a landline!