Our Staff

Derek Clifton

Location Manager, Funeral Director

Derek Clifton is a second-generation Funeral Director dedicated to serving families with compassion and professionalism. He currently serves as the Manager and Funeral Director at Settle-Wilder Funeral Home in New Smyrna Beach, while also supporting families as a Funeral Director at Allen-Summerhill Funeral Home in DeLand.

Born and raised in DeLand, Derek is a proud graduate of DeLand High School and has deep roots in the Volusia County community. With a lifelong connection to funeral service, he brings empathy, experience, and a strong sense of local commitment to every family he serves.

Derek is honored to continue his family’s legacy in funeral service, helping families navigate difficult times with dignity, care, and respect.

Timothy Gibbons

Funeral Director

Timothy joined the Settle-Wilder family in May, 2025. As a funeral director, he brings a certain mix of compassion and business acumen to meet every family in their grieving process. He has worked in both family owned and corporate owned funeral homes and feels that Settle-Wilder was where he needed to be to meet families to help settle broken hearts when death occurs. It is a mix of remembrance and celebration of a life and also giving the living the ability to grieve and heal.

Timothy started his career in funeral service in 2010 after a career in retail store management with Kohls Department Stores and Gap Inc. He decided to change careers due to a death in his own family based on how the funeral director helped his mother through the process of grieving. It was through this experience that he knew he could make a bigger impact in people’s lives.  

During his free time, he spends time with his family, writes creatively, independently publishing a novel through Amazon KDP, and enjoys history, especially American history, and music of all genres.

JANICE CONRAD

Office Manager

Janice joined the Settle-Wilder family in October, 2004. She brings over 40 years of business management to our team. Janice oversees the general operations of the funeral home; performs a wide variety of duties such as, composing obituaries, coordinating services, and schedules and monitors funeral service operations. Her attention to detail is an asset to our funeral home. Being compassionate, she is dedicated to helping our families with her caring ways.

Janice found her niche in the funeral industry at the Freitag Funeral Home in Bridgeton, New Jersey; where she worked over eight years as the Business Administrator. Always finding satisfaction helping others, working at Freitag’s was a wonderful business opportunity.

Janice and her husband Craig moved from Upper Deerfield Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey in 2004, when they purchased a home in the Florida Shores, Edgewater. In 2020, they built their dream home, off the grid in Oak Hill. She enjoys sitting on the porch, admiring the sunsets, listening to the birds and feeding the fish in their pond. Janice is a dedicated wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

In her spare time, Janice is an active volunteer with the East Coast Cruisers Car Club and currently the Board Secretary. You can see her at the local car shows with her 1966 GTO, “Sarah”.

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Dr. Gordon Meier

Licensed Pre-Need Specialist

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Noble Livingston

Licensed Pre-Need Specialist