Heonis Information

To those that may wonder how the Heonis last name got to be from our original name of Chionis.
  There are maybe 2 different versions of this story as to how it all came to be.
 

1.

  Not exactly sure where this version may have taken place, at the immigration office or when Demetrius Constantine Chionis applied for his US citizenship later on, but when he told them his last name the officials misunderstood the punctuation of the sound maybe from his foreign accent, thinking the “Chi” as “He”, so they wrote down Heonis. So this is one version as to the last name.
 

2.

  It has also been said that this was the way Demetrius Constantine Chionis (James C. Heonis) put it in English because it would be easier for everyone to pronounce. This name has 6 letters, thus having 3 words in it ( he on is ) and you pronounce it as these 3 words together

  Also the Greek name Demetrius is James in English so this is how the name
Demetrius Constantine Chionis became James C. Heonis
 

The American Generation of Heonis
 

  From the Third Generation of Demetrius Constantine Chionis, being the Grand-Children of James C. Heonis onward, they were born in the United States of America. Starting in 1940 from the first Grand Child, their social life was mostly with other Americans and the schools there, so they only know the English language. This also applies to the other generations that followed.