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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001181431-05-059895
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20051104
FILED AS OF DATE:		20051107
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20051107

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:			MCCREARY JAMES C
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001205441

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-09225
		FILM NUMBER:		051183097

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O H B FULLER CO
		STREET 2:		P.O. BOX 64683
		CITY:			ST PAUL
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55164-0683
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6512365825

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		H.B. FULLER COMPANY
		STREET 2:		P.O. BOX 64683
		CITY:			ST. PAUL
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55164-0683
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        <footnote id="F1">401(k) Plan: This amount includes shares and dividends acquired during the fiscal year pursuant to the H.B. Fuller Company Thrift Plan.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">2000 Stock Incentive Plan: This option vests in four equal installments beginning on December 7, 2001.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">2000 Stock Incentive Plan: This option vests in four equal installments beginning on January 17, 2003.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">2000 Stock Incentive Plan: This option vests in four equal installments beginning on December 9, 2003.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">Deferred Compensation Plan: These units convert into shares of common stock on a 1-for-1 basis.</footnote>
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        <footnote id="F7">2000 Stock Incentive Plan:  This option vests in four equal installment beginning on December 3, 2004.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F8">2000 Stock Incentive Plan: This option vests in four equal installments beginning on December 2, 2005.</footnote>
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        <footnote id="F10">Deferred Compensation Plan: These units (acquired after 12-31-04) convert into shares of common stock on a 1-for-1 basis.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F11">Deferred Compensation Plan: These units (acquired after 12-31-04) convert into shares of common stock upon the earlier of certain termination events as specified in the Key Employee Deferred Compensation Plan or such earlier date as selected by the participant, subject to holding periods required by law.</footnote>
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        <footnote id="F13">2000 Stock Incentive Plan: These restricted shares were awarded pursuant to H.B. Fuller Company's 2000 Stock Incentive Plan.  Amount includes 893 restricted shares that vest in four equal annual installments beginning on April 15, 2005, and 2237 restricted shares that vest effective December 2, 2007.  Total amount also includes restricted shares acquired pursuant to a dividend reinvestment feature of the 2000 Stock Incentive Plan.</footnote>
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<PRE>
POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, James C. McCreary,
hereby constitute and appoint Patricia L. Jones, Albert P.L. Stroucken, Timothy J.
Keenan, and John A. Feenan, 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:  August 18, 2004				/s/  James C. McCreary

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