‘Funeral horror’ kin set to sue

Relatives of a woman whose remains wound up at a Brooklyn funeral home that piled up bodies in moving trucks are preparing to file suit, their lawyer said Tuesday.

The daughter and granddaughter of Angela Rodriguez allege that her body was entrusted to another funeral home and that they had no idea it was handed off to Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Services, lawyer Kathryn Barnett said.

Rodriguez’s family was “horrified” when the city Medical Examiner’s Office told them her body was among the scores found in U-Haul trucks outside Cleckley last month.

“They had heard the news about these unthinkable findings and thought, ‘Thank heaven we didn’t use that funeral home,’ ” Barnett said.

The ghastly discovery of bodies in the trucks — and more lying on the floor of the Cleckley facility in the Flatlands section — led the state Department of Health to shut down the operation.

“Angela Rodriguez was a grandmother. She was a mother. She was much loved,” Barnett said. “Her family tried to do the best for her, and she was stacked up like a piece of trash.”

Rodriguez, 77, died of an undisclosed cause on March 24. It’s unclear how her body wound up at Cleckley, Barnett said.

Cleckley was among many funeral homes struggling to keep up amid so many COVID-19 deaths.

The suit will be filed in Supreme Court in The Bronx because that’s where daughter Marcella Rodriguez lives, Barnett said.

Cleckley’s phone isn’t in service, and the company didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.