Health aide’s ‘body snatch’

A home health aide raided her elderly patient’s estate, cremated his remains without a memorial service and tossed the ashes into an unmarked New Jersey grave without telling his family, a lawsuit claims.

Trudy Weste Williams was utterly heartless in the months before her ward, nonagenarian Philip Abrahams, died of cardiac arrest in 2012 — forging his signature to give herself power of attorney and faking a will making her executor of his estate, according to court papers.

Abrahams, 93, a retired waiter who spent decades at the legendary Gallagher’s Steakhouse, had appointed niece Christine Adams (inset, with Abrahams) as his executor decades earlier, instructing her to bury him next to his wife, Edith, in Danville, Ky., Adams says in the Manhattan Supreme Court claim.

But Williams brushed aside those final wishes, allegedly using her phony documents to claim his body from St. Luke’s Hospital.

“He was cremated and prepared for burial without a funeral service,” and family and friends were never notified, Adams charges.

Now, instead of spending eternity next to the woman he met decades ago in a subway station, Abrahams’ remains sit in a lonely, unmarked plot in Linden’s Rosehill Cemetery.

“It makes me feel so awful,” a tearful Adams told The Post. “It’s devastating.” The aide siphoned more than $326,000 from Abrahams’ retirement accounts, aided by a JP Morgan Chase employee who knowingly failed to follow procedures and allowed Williams to set up a joint account with her patient, according to the filing.

Williams allegedly withdrew nearly all of Abrahams’ funds in the weeks before he died. She also stayed in his West 119th Street apartment until six months after his death, refusing to vacate until “after removing all of the valuables . . . leaving behind a ransacked apartment,” his family charges.

Williams, who still advertises herself online as a home health aide, didn’t return messages. Chase is reviewing the suit, a spokesman said.