Kathryn “Kay” Frazer Brooks, 82, of Westport, Conn., died Nov. 7 in her home after a lengthy illness.

She was vice president of Brooks Community Newspapers, founded and published by her husband, B.V. Dexter Brooks, and a now-defunct newspaper company that had distributed newspapers throughout Fairfield County in Connecticut. She retired in 1995.

She leaves a daughter, Lori; a son, Marc; two granddaughters, Kaila and Kathryn.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.