As March is Women’s History Month, WKTV is celebrating some of the women leaders from the cities of Kentwood and Wyoming.

When Carol Sheets heard that Metro Health was looking for a new home in the early 2000s, Sheets made a phone call to hospital officials and proposed the City of Wyoming. The rest is history.

Sheets served on the City Council from 1993 – 2009, the last four years as the city’s first and only female mayor. During her tenure, she saw the city go through some of its roughest times, the lost of Celebrating Wyoming and the closing of Rogers Department Store and the GM Manufacturing Plant on 36th Street. Still she proved unwavering to her dedication to the city she loved, serving as its advocate and making those calls to bring organizations in. Sheets died in 2013. She was 69.