Unable to Delete Mailbox Database

Recently, while decommissioning an Exchange 2013 server after a migrating from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 and then to Exchange 2016, I received a familiar error when attempting to remove the last database from Exchange 2013 (see references at end of article). This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, public folder mailboxes…