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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001181431-04-056842
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20041202
FILED AS OF DATE:		20041206
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20041206

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			FULLER H B CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000039368
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ADHESIVES & SEALANTS [2891]
		IRS NUMBER:				410268370
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MN
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1203

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1200 WILLOW LAKE BLVD
		CITY:			ST PAUL
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55110-5132
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6126453401

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			MARCANTONIO RICHARD L
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001186364

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-09225
		FILM NUMBER:		041185872

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		G&K SERVICES INC
		STREET 2:		5995 OPUS PKWY
		CITY:			MINNETONKA
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55343
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9529125500
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            <rptOwnerState>MN</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>55164-0683</rptOwnerZipCode>
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            <isOfficer>0</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
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                <value>Common Stock</value>
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            <transactionDate>
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        <footnote id="F1">Directors' Stock Incentive Plan: These shares were awarded pursuant to the H.B. Fuller Company 1998 Directors' Stock Incentive Plan.  These shares will vest effective 12-2-2008.</footnote>
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    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>Timothy J. Keenan, Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Richard L.
Marcantonio, hereby constitute and appoint Patricia L. Jones, Albert P.L. Stroucken, John
A. Feenan, and Timothy J. Keenan, and each of them, my true and lawful attorneys-in-
fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for me and in my name,
place and stead, to sign any reports on Form 3 (Initial Statement of Beneficial Ownership
of Securities), Form 4 (Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership of Securities) and
Form 5 (Annual Statement of Beneficial Ownership of Securities) relating to transactions
by me in Common Stock or other securities of H.B. Fuller Company, and all amendments
thereto, and to file the same, with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the
appropriate securities exchange, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each
of them, or their substitutes, full power and authority to do and perform each and every
act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as I might or could do in person, hereby ratify and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.  This Power of Attorney shall be effective until
such time as I deliver a written revocation thereof to the above-named attorneys-in-fact
and agents.

Dated :  September 12, 2004				/s/  Richard Marcantonio




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