CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -

Six months after cancer took the life of a Cook County Sheriff's Sergeant, his push to get people on the bone marrow registry has saved a life.

A fellow officer turned out to be a match for someone.

"He was so good. He was a good guy," Rosie Villalobos said of her late brother.

Cook County Sheriff's Sergeant Encarnacion Roldan Jr., or Junior' as his friends called him, was a larger than life kind of guy.

"He was a big hearted person and he was a big personcompared to me," Villalobos laughed.

Roldan was diagnosed with Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma. The Cook County Sheriff's department arranged for a bone marrow registry drive last fall to see if they could find a match.

Unfortunately, Sgt. Roldan lost his fight in September before finding a match.

Cook County Corrections Officer Conor Ryan was one of the many people inspired to sign up that day.

"The sheriff's department, we're really, kind of like a family. We're not co-workers," Officer Ryan said.

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Cook County Sheriff's Sergeant: Bone marrow push saves life

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