Deletion of Joseph Hamernick

Comment: per . Somebody apparently wrote this in response to his recent death, and both sources are obituaries. In fact they are special-interest obituaries; no independent reliable source seems to have published one. I'm sure he was a fine person, but he does not meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability. The department-chair position is not enough, and Google Scholar finds almost nothing
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTMEMORIAL)

Comment: The subject does not appear to meet any of the criteria at 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ACADEMIC)

Comment: The two cited sources are so textually similar that they should really only count as one, neither gives any indication of anything he did that might be of non-local significance, and I can't find any evidence elsewhere in Google scholar or Google news archive for passing  or 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:GNG)