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Thank you, Fritz.
But, Peter needs an answer that illuminates the problems that existed in Lorain and in other places in the US at that time.
Lorain was a mill town that was full of tightly bound immigrant ethnic groups. Two of them were the Magyars (the people we call Hungarians) and the Slovaks. Numerous contentions were brought over from the old country making the two groups not overly friendly. Things got worse during the two world wars when Hungary sided with the Germans.
Among the Magyars there were, and still are, numerous families with Slovak and other minority surnames. For numerous decades it was fashionable in Hungary for Magyars to get rid of surnames that showed minority ancestry. There was a quick and inexpensive way to do that.
"Luc'ky" (loochkee) is a common Slovak surname. It's approximate meaning is "Meadows". It is not the thing to carry if one is trying to show solidarity with Magyar causes.
In America it was quite possible to just change one's surname without going thru' any legal niceties. Many immigrants did this.
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