Arthur Robert "Bob" Hamilton, 82,  died July 28th in Aztec, where he had lived since 2003. Hamilton modeled for one of artist Norman Rockwell's iconic Boy Scout paintings during World War II

Hamilton is shown as a teenager giving the Boy Scout salute in Rockwell's 1944 painting, "We, Too, Have a Job To Do."

The curator of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., Linda Pero, confirms Hamilton was the painting's model.

Hamilton's daughter, Alison H.H. King of Chandler, Arizona, says he was defined by being a Boy Scout.

Scouting was his career. Hamilton worked for the Boy Scouts of America as a fundraiser until retiring in 1989.