Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katherine B. Hoffman
Human interest stories may have lower standards of fact-checking per , but I don't see evidence of that for NYTimes obituaries, even in the COVID era.  Another obituary of depth appears in the Tallahassee Democrat http://tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/07/21/covid-19-claims-life-fsu-professor-emerita-katherine-kitty-blood-hoffman/5474662002/ and a shorter piece appears on ABC https://abcnews.go.com/US/faces-coronavirus-pandemic-remembering-died/story?id=69932880.  The coverage of her honorary doctorate is also solid, per the source provided by
— User:TJMSmith, 15:08, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NEWSORG (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)