The day before he died Richard Riendeau called his wife Vicki to tell her about “Moore- Mart,” a charity for soldiers stationed overseas he hoped to benefit with a volunteer drive organized with his Boy Scouts.

The father of two, who had organized his local Boy Scouts in an annual volunteer effort for charities that benefit soldiers and veterans since 9/11, died at age 47 on Sept. 25 after suffering a massive heart attack.

In his memory, his two sons and the rest of the young men in Windham’s Boy Scout Troop 266 have spent the month and a half since Riendeau’s death collecting toiletries and other basic supplies for Moore-Mart, a New Hampshire-based organization for soldiers and veterans.

On Veteran’s Day, Troop 266 presented dozens of boxes of stockings to Moore-Mart during a tearful ceremony at BAE Systems – Riendeau’s employer – in Nashua to honor their fallen Scoutmaster.

“This would make my husband so proud,” Riendeau said, surrounded by her two sons, Richard’s parents and his brother. “He was an amazing man, very quiet in what he did, but made sure that they troops were taken care of in some small way.”

Richard volunteered in the past with BAE’s “Operation Noble Cause,” a employee- based program designed to help soldiers and their families. After he died, his wife said, Operation Noble Cause’s liaison, Gerry Finnigan, worked with the Scouts to carry out Riendeau’s final wish.

“My husband was always proud of the fact that he worked with a company that said, ‘We protect those who protect us.’ To him that meant the world. What BAE did was protect our troops and he was very adamant about that,” Riendeau said.

Riendeau served in the army from 1978 to 1982 and was stationed in West Germany during two years of his service. His wife said she only found out he had been rated an expert rifleman after his death, a piece of his past that surprised her.

“Rick was very quiet about his accomplishments. If it was something that he was good at, then there was no need to brag. That expert rifleman thing blew me away, but that’s how he was,” she said. “His boys were very thrilled about that. Both of them have said, ‘Dad’s my hero.’ He truly was their hero and is their hero. They keep saying, ‘That’s how dad would have wanted us to do it.”

Cliff Riendeau, Richard’s eldest son and a sophomore at Salem High School who plans on joining the Air Force after graduation, said his father never sought publicity or recognition for the efforts he made to help soldiers and veterans.

“He wasn’t one to draw attention to himself,” Cliff said. “He did what he thought needed to get done. It was the right thing to do.”

Moore-Mart, with the efforts of Troop 266 and employees at BAE Systems, plans to send roughly 3,000 stockings to Granite State servicemen and women station outside of the United States and those recouping back home in time for Christmas.

“One of the things that used to just choke (Richard) up was when he would see soldiers coming back from overseas,” Riendeau. “He would say, ‘Our soldiers are coming back physically maimed and I feel like we just don’t do enough to help them when they come back.