El Rancho Simi Cemetery District

The Simi Cemetery is the first recorded cemetery in the Simi Valley, having been established in 1890 by Clementine Parantau on land she purchased from the California Mutual Benefit Colony of Chicago (Simi Cemetery Map, 4890).  Clementine Parantau was one of the first members of the California Mutual Benefit Colony of Chicago to arrive in the Simi Valley in 1888-1889.  During the Southern…

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