Father James Arthur Mclnerney died November 9, 1980, at the Spring View Hospital Nursing Home (Marian Manor) in Lebanon, Kentucky. Following services at St. Dominic- St. Thomas Priory in River Forest, Illinois, his assigned religious community, he was buried in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, on November 12.

James Patrick Mclnerney was born in Chicago, l11inois, on August 11, 1905. He attended St. Columbanus Grade School and De La Salle Institute and then worked to help support his family before beginning advanced studies in 1925 at Aquinas College in Columbus, Ohio, and St. Charles College in Baltimore, Maryland. On August 15, 1930, he entered the Dominican novitiate at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, where he was assigned Arthur as a religious name and made his first profession a year later. Philosophical studies followed at the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, and theological courses at both St. Joseph Priory in Somerset, Ohio, and the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He was ordained to the priesthood in St. Dominic's Church in Washington on June 11, 1937.

Father McInerney was first assigned to Aquinas High School in Columbus, Ohio, to teach Latin, English history, and economics. In July 1940, he transfiliated to the new Province of St. Albert the Great and was sent to Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison, Wisconsin, where he served as an associate pastor while studying mathematics at Edgewood College. In 1942, he moved to St. Anthony of Padua Priory in New Orleans, Louisiana, to teach philosophy and theology at St. Mary s Dominican College and at Xavier University. From 1955 to 1957, he served as chaplain and philosophy instructor at Incarnate Word College in San Antonio, Texas, before being assigned to teach philosophy at De Paul University in Chicago, Illinois, while residing first at St. Dominic Priory in Oak Park and later at St. Dominic House on South Euclid Avenue in Chicago.

In 1968, Father McInerney retired from teaching and moved back to St. Dominic Priory in Oak Park after the Euclid Avenue house closed. He continued to work with adult education programs and to serve as spiritual advisor and scholarship consultant for the national Catholic fraternity Phi Kappa Theta, and the national Catholic sorority, Theta Phi Alpha a position he maintained for over twenty years. In the late 1970's, his health began to fail and the debilitating effects of a series of strokes and near blind- ness eventually required him to move from St. Dominic-St. Thomas Priory in River Forest to the special nursing facilities in Lebanon, Kentucky, where he resided until the time of his death.