Deletion of Maurice Ash

Comment: I normally don't join pile-ons at AFD, but the idea that obituaries, which are necessarily  of someone's entire life (and thus not coverage of a single event), do not confer notability, is patently ridiculous. Of course obituaries in broadsheet newspapers confer notability on their subject. No, simply having been mentored by the subject does not make the author not independent of it, what matters is editorial independence. There is no need to look for further sources here, absolutely none, but had the nom looked they would have found them.  met and then some
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:SIGCOV||WP:BASIC)