Kay Delaney Bring, who had a career in advertising sales and served on the board of Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater, died of cancer on June 3 in Sarasota, Fla. Formerly of East Hampton, she was 87.
In the early 1970s, Ms. Bring co-founded Video Way, a business that was eventually sold to Weight Watchers and then acquired by Heinz. After her contract with Heinz expired, she was one of the first advertising salespeople hired by Ted Turner when he formed CNN. She helped open the network’s New York City sales office and went on to become international vice president for sales. She retired in 1994.
She and her husband, Murray H. Bring, had a house in East Hampton from 1994 to about 2019 and supported Guild Hall and the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton. She enjoyed tennis and biking here and late-summer afternoons with family at Georgica Beach.
In New York City, the Brings were benefactors of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Playwrights Horizons.
The couple began spending time in Sarasota in 2003 and moved there in 2010 while continuing to summer in East Hampton. They supported Sarasota’s orchestra, ballet, and opera, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, Urbanite Theatre, and Ringling College of Art and Design. They donated a collection of significant 20th-century artworks to the Ringling Museum and were founding supporters of the Sarasota Art Museum.
Kathleen Marie Hanley was born in Manhattan on Oct. 31, 1938, to Robert Hanley and the former Noreen Broderick. She grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y., going on to earn a bachelor’s degree in modern languages from Marymount College in 1960.
She and her first husband, Paul Andrew Delaney, had three children, whom she raised as a single mother in Scarsdale. She spent summers in East Hampton starting in 1980.
She and Mr. Bring were married on May 14, 1990, and split their time between East Hampton and New York City for many years, living here full time from 1999 to 2003.
Her husband survives, as do her children, Noreen Delaney Polidoro of Sarasota, Sheila Delaney of East Hampton, and Robert Delaney of Pound Ridge, N.Y., and her stepchildren, Beth Sanderson of Alexandria, Va., Katie Metzger of Brooklyn, and Peter Bring of Missoula, Mont. She is also survived by three grandchildren and four stepgrandchildren, and two sisters, Elizabeth Schroeter of Hilton Head, S.C., and Patricia McKinnon of Montecito, Calif.
In Sarasota, she was a member of St. Thomas More Catholic Church, and here she was a member of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, where a funeral was held on June 22. She was buried at the church cemetery on Cedar Street.
