10 August 70
announces she will marry Palen Flagler, vice-president J. P. Stevens & Co. in September at the retirement home of her father in Madrid, Spain. Flagler, a graduate of Colgate University, joined Stevens in 1952 as advertising manager, and in 1958 was named director of advertising and public relations.
30 December 70
marries Isaac Palen Flagler, Jr., in the garden of Madeleine Gilpatrick`s Park Avenue town house in New York City. He`s 58, she`s 56. Afterwards, she and Palen fly to Madrid to spend New Year`s Eve with her father, who recently went blind in one eye. Columnist Suzy reports: "After that, it will be Paris and London and parties and friends and all the rest of it."
April 71
as Anita Colby Flagler, she`s reported being a devout Catholic wife of a rich and successful businessman. The Flaglers divide their time between Manhattan and a 50-acre fieldstone estate in Stockton, New Jersey. "Her clothes are always by Givenchy and Gus Tassell. One week she`s with the Bob Hopes in Beverly Hills. The next she`s off to Adele Astair`s estate in Lismore, Ireland - near Killnarney."
March 76
she and Flagler are among the guests of Mrs. Dennison Slater`s birthday party thrown by Mrs. Donald Decoursey Harrington of Arizona and Texas, widow of a multimillionaire oilman and industrialist
May 78
she and Flagler are reported entertaining stage actress Ruth Zuckermann at their farm in New Jersey
March 84
becomes the widow of Flagler, who dies at age 72 in Oyster Bay, New York