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J. Joseph Fuller, 76, died October 6, 2006, of cancer.
Fuller was a founding member of the National Fastener Distributors Association and its original associate chairman.
Fuller began his fastener career as a salesman with Chicago-based Lamson & Sessions Co., where he started a subsidiary, Full Line Fasteners, in 1969. In 1974 he founded the Joseph Fuller Co. in Chicago, an industrial fastener supplier that grew to five branch warehouses in the U.S. Fuller also was a partner in four other fastener distribution businesses in the Midwest.
Fuller came out of retirement to head the Hunter-Stevens Co., a specialty socket screw manufacturer.
In 1995 he was named to the NIFS Fastener Hall of Fame.
Fuller is survived by his wife Reggie; sons Tom, Joe and John, daughters Elizabeth, Mary and Anne; three grandchildren; and a brother.
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