Carrie Godt (Henry’s wife) felt that putting kerosene on her ankles and legs would keep the chiggers from biting.

Lorene had a lot of folk medicine cures. Many members of the Godt Family suffered from sinus trouble. Two teaspoons of native honey each day was used to keep the sinuses clear. When going outside on a cold day the best practice was to place a wool scarf around the forehead to ward off sinus headache and congestion. When you have a sore throat, gargle with vinegar and sugar. For laryngitis, place a chunk of ice in a cloth and suck on it. Cider vinegar and honey is also good for a cough. Of course, you should always "Feed a cold and starve a fever." Many thought it necessary to take a spring tonic each year to thin the blood. The tonic was usually made by boiling sassafras root in February or early March, before the sap rises.

Some common superstitions always practised in the home of Lorene Godt Feix were: If you come in the house by the front door, don’t exit by the back door. "See a pin and pick it up, all the day you’ll have good luck. See a pin and let it lay, you’ll have bad luck all the day." Break a mirror and you’ll have seven years bad luck.

From Clara Godt:

If you tell of your dream before breakfast, your dream will come true. From Minnie, Clara, and other Godts: If you make a statement such as "I haven’t had a cold in long time" add: "Knock on wood" and then knock on some nearby wooden object. It keeps the bad spirits away.

My Uncle Mogens has written the story of our family up to my grandparents, and their arrival in Horbelev Denmark.

Mogens told of how my Grandfather was hired by the Horbelev Co-op store in early 1925. He married Ellen Madsen in 1925, and my father was born on June 16th, 1926. 

My father was the first of three boys born in the house above the store. He was followed by Mogens and Bruno.

My father studied Co-operatives at a Co-op College in Denmark, and was apprenticed to a Co-op store in Maglebrande.   In 1951, my father was accepted by Federated Co-operatives in Saskatchewan to come to Canada to study Co-operative Retailing. His first placement was Yorkton Saskatchewan, where he met and married my mother, Ellen Jean Watson, on August 20th 1952.   

My sister, Susan Marie Godt was born in Yorkton on the 10th of July 1953. At that time my father was grocery manager of the Yorkton Co-op. In August of 1953 they moved to Kipling Saskatchewan, where he became General Manager. 

I was born on May the 11th 1955 in Kipling. That August we again moved, as my father become General Manager of the Vermilion, Alberta Co-op where we stayed until the summer of 1957. By this time my father had developed an interest in using the Co-operative philosophy as a tool for development.