Simplicio Alunan Lizares

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Don Simplicio Alunan Lizares was one of 17 children of Don Efigenio Treyes Lizares and Dona Frederica Alunan Lizares. He had 13 children.

He owned numerous sugar plantations in Talisay Negros Occidental.

---Don Simplicio Alunan Lizares, one of the seventeen children of Efegenio Lizares and Enrica Alunan, more known as “Tana Dikang” of Talisay. He married Eleuteria Treyes and they had eleven (11) children: The eldest, 1.) Socorro married Dr. Nicolas Escario of Cebu; 2.) Mario Miguel Arcangel died young at 3 years of age; 3.) Rodolfo "Dolfing" married Luisa Armstrong, an American mestiza; 4.) Buenvenido Mario "Batoy", who served as Mayor of Talisay for 24 years married Xenia Coscolluela; 5.) Lucrecia married Dr. Romeo Gustilo, one of the founders of Makati Medical Center; 6.) Simplicio Jr. "Nene", who died in a plane crash married Carmen Hermosisima; 7.) Amelo "Meling" married Teresita Valderrama; 8.) Aurora, married and divorced James Wagoner; 9.) Florinda "Linda" married Miguel Angel Cano; 10.) Eustaquia, known as “Beauty”; single and 11.) Nonata, single. His wife Eleuteria died on March 19,1927, after giving birth to Nonata. During his life as a widower, he sired more children with two women thereafter. (12.) Dario with Amalia Perez; and three (3) with Matilde Williams, namely (13.) Roberto married Martha de Monteverde; (14.) Erlinda married Protector Celino; and (15.) Carmela married Benjamin Du of Cebu. Don Simplicio later remarried to Amalia Perez, who all his children learned to love and respect, as she brought them all up as her own.

Don Simplicio Lizares was one of the signatories of the 1935 Constitution and served as Mayor of Talisay. Until his death in the mid-fifties he was involved in business and politics for the good of the town. He managed both the Talisay-Silay Sugar Central and Danao Sugar Central and was the first president of the Planters’ Association.

In 1936 he commissioned Juan F. Nakpil ((May 26, 1899 – May 7, 1986) one of Manila’s finest architects to design him a house. It was originally intended for a property along Dewey Boulevard (now Roxas Boulevard) in Pasay City, which was larger. Which is why according to his son Mario, the house looks too big for the lot, where it now stands. It is in Italianate - Art Deco style popular during the 1930's here in the Philippines. In 1973, Juan F. Nakpil was named one of the National Artists for architecture, and tapped as the Dean of Filipino Architects. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143764211/simplicio-alunan-lizares

New Philippines: A Book on the Building Up of a New Nation (1934), by Felixberto Bustos and Abelardo Fajardo (p. 242)

Commemoration of Chief Citizens of 1934-1937 in Visayas and Mindanao (p. 201)

Our Delegates to the Constitutional Assembly: English-Spanish (1935, p. 375-376)

Encyclopedia of the Philippines: The Library of Philippine Literature, Art and Science, Volume 9: Builders of the New Philippines (1936, p. 368, Image 78)

Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1890)

Marriage register with Eleuteria Treyes

Marriage register with Amalia Perez

Death certificate