Collection: Westminster Memorial Park - Westminster

First opened as Central Memorial Park in 1924, Westminster Memorial Park is undoubtedly one of the more beautiful cemetery properties in Southern California. Comprising 150 pastoral acres, the memorial park has captured the affections and imaginations of city and chamber committees who have recognized the property for its beauty, as well as that of thousands of families of various social, cultural and religious backgrounds who have decided to have their loved ones buried here.

Nineteen twenty-four wasn’t a great year to open a cemetery, but the investors who established Central Memorial Park in Westminster could not see the future nor did they have the advantage of hindsight. They did not fare well during the 1929 stock market crash and subsequent financial crisis. They lost all of their funding and fled the area. Then in the 1930s, Orange County, which had assumed responsibility for the cemetery, found new investors to take on the remaining land and develop it as a memorial par