Visitation: FRIDAY, February 3, 2017: 2-4 & 7-9 pm at The Dietrich Funeral Homes, Inc., 2480 Kensington Ave., Amherst.
Service: SATURDAY, February 2, 2017: A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 am at St. Teresa of Avila, Akron. CONSCHAFTER – Dr. David S.
January 27, 2017. Beloved husband
of the late Julie Anne (nee Berendes)
Conschafter; loving father of Scott
(Megan) and Mark (Julie) Conschafter;
grandfather of Luke Conschafter;
loving son of Dr. Robert and Joan
Conschafter; loving fiance of Margaret
Novotny, MD; brother of Jeffrey, Sally
(James) Porter and Bradley (Heidi)
Conschafter; also survived by nieces
and nephews. Family and friends
may call Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 PM
at the DIETRICH FUNERAL HOME,
INC, 2480 Kensington Ave., Amherst.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be
celebrated on Saturday at 10:30 AM
at St. Teresa Avila, 5771 Buell St.,
Akron, NY 14001. Please assemble
at church. David was a Chiropractor
in Cheektowaga for 27 years. Flowers
gratefully declined. Memorials may be
made to Roswell Park Cancer Institute
in memory of Julie Conschafter. Online
condolences may be shared at
www.TheDietrichFuneralHome.com Oct. 1, 1956 – Jan. 30, 2017

Dr. David S. Conschafter, a chiropractor in Cheektowaga for 27 years, died unexpectedly last Friday in his Williamsville home. He was 60.

Born in Davenport, Iowa, the son of a chiropractor, he came to the Buffalo area with his family as a child and was a graduate of Williamsville North High School.

He attended colleges and lived in the Midwest in the 1980s. After graduating in 1990 from the Logan University College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, he returned to the Buffalo area and set up practice in Cheektowaga in a building where his father also had a practice.

He went on to earn an advanced certificate in whiplash and brain injury traumatology from the Spine Research Institute of San Diego.

Active in the chiropractic community, Dr. Conschafter visited Disney World annually, loved penguins and enjoyed relaxing in his hot tub.

His wife of 28 years, the former Julie Anne Berendes, a registered nurse, died in 2011. He and his fiancee, Dr. Margaret A. Novotny, an obstetrician and gynecologist, had planned to marry in April.

Survivors also include two sons, Scott and Mark; his parents, Dr. Robert and Joan; two brothers, Jeffrey and Bradley; a sister, Sally Porter; and a grandson.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church, 5771 Buell St., Akron.