Stanley Swan was raised on a dairy farm in Jasper, New York. Stan knew as a youngster that he would one day be in the funeral business. After a brief detour to the broadcasting trade, Stan eventually returned to the ‘calling’ that he felt and, at 31, entered the Simmons School in Syracuse. He operated the funeral home in Andover, NY, until a case of cancer led him away for a bit, but he returned after the challenge passed, and he spent his last licensed- years serving families in Corning, N.Y.
Penning his memoir "Undertakings of an Undertaker," he now speaks and writes full-time. His joy is speaking to service, retirement groups, and libraries, emphasizing the necessity for people to ask questions ahead of their actual needs, and the importance of funeral traditions. Stan’s second book Tales Unleashed, was released in 2019 and is a fiction short story book of ‘unusual tales’, many of them with a cemetery theme. He has appeared on several national and regional radio programs and podcasts and loves the ‘one on one’ with people of all ages that he meets. When practicing, he was a member of Homeland Security and did recovery work when the Twin Towers fell in New York City, and a few years later, he worked on victim recovery following Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, MS.