Qns. vics called ‘good’ family

Three murder victims whose bodies were left to rot for days in their Queens home were remembered Sunday as a “good” and “quiet” family who worked hard and took care of one another.

Karlene Barnett, 55, and her son Dervon Brightly, 36, were found stabbed to death in their house in South Jamaica on Friday, along with Varshanna Malcolm, 22, who friends said was Barnett’s niece.

“They were a good family,” horrified former neighbor Shaun Buchanan, 40, told The Post on Sunday.

“It was extremely shocking for us to hear they were murdered gruesomely like that, viciously,” Buchanan said. “That’s what’s driving us crazy. That these people died like that.”

Nate Richardson, 35, was also mourning the loss of the mother and son, saying he and Brightly, who everyone called Derv, were close friends for years.

“We went through everything together. It was him and two other friends, and we called ourselves the Four Horsemen. We did everything together,” Richardson said. “He was there for everything, the baby showers, the births, first car. I went to school in Virginia and he came out there.”

Buchanan said Barnett, who worked in health care, “was hardworking.” She was described as “stern but caring” by Richardson.

“If there was rules, you abided by the rules. But she always made sure his skinny self was fed,” he said of the two.

Richardson’s wife, Danielle, 33, said Brightly was fond of doing impressions and funny voices, adding that the couple had last spoken to him Tuesday.

“He was professing his love for one of our childhood friends,” Danielle Richardson said. “He was asking us to put in a good word for him. ”

As of Sunday, no arrests had been announced in the slayings.