TROY — Officials past and present are paying respects to Jeanne Stine, an inspirational trailblazer in the city of Troy who died Oct. 28 at the age of 96.

Stine joined the Troy City Council in 1976, making history as the first woman to do so. She then made history again when after 16 years of council service, she was elected as the city’s first female mayor, a role she served from 1992 to 2001. She was then reelected to council in 2003.

Stine was born in Detroit to William Lyle and Eleanor Laura Goodwin on June 18, 1929. She was the eldest of 11 children, with seven younger sisters and three younger brothers.

“And one of the things she always would tell me and everybody else (is that her mother) instilled in all of her children a love for reading and a love for books, and Jeanne loved t

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