LI sisters sue two funeral homes after wrong man is buried in their father’s tomb

What a “Heartbreaker.”

Two Long Island-born sisters have filed a $60 million lawsuit against a pair of funeral homes after the wrong man was allegedly buried in their father’s grave wearing his beloved Led Zeppelin T-shirt.

Stacy Holzman and Megan Zaner were heartbroken when their dad, Clifford Zaner, 72, died of heart failure in his South Carolina home on Feb. 25 — but the grief turned to shock when they saw that the man set to be buried in their family plot at Mount Ararat Cemetery in East Farmingdale looked nothing like their dad, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday.

“There were red flags when we viewed the body, huge red flags,” Holzman told the Daily Beast.

“The first thing I noticed when they opened the casket was no mustache … Just a bare upper lip. And I couldn’t stop focusing on that,” Holzman added, noting that her father sported a mustache for decades until his death.

The body in the casket also had an autopsy scar with stitches on the forehead, something that wouldn’t have been on Zaner because his family never requested such a procedure, states the Suffolk County Supreme Court suit.

Despite their concerns, the sisters allege that the Star of David Memorial Chapel funeral home in West Babylon assured them that nothing was out of the ordinary, insisting they received the correct body from Fletcher Funeral Service in South Carolina, according to the lawsuit.

The family was too grief-stricken to second-guess the funeral directors and chose to trust them, the suit states. As per Jewish tradition, Zaner was also to have a speedy funeral — another reason why the family chose not to dwell on their uncertainties.

But three weeks after his burial at the family’s Long Island gravesite, the sisters received a call from the Fletcher funeral home confirming that there was in fact a mix-up — and that the wrong man was lying in their father’s tomb wearing his clothes, the lawsuit alleges.

Zaner’s body, meanwhile, was left in a storage facility at a funeral chapel for nearly a month, violating Jewish tradition, the court documents state.

His body was about to be cremated when Fletcher employees noticed something wrong and later confirmed that the body was Zaner’s and was supposed to have been flown out weeks ago, according to the suit.

The sisters were left so distraught that they could not bring themselves to go through another funeral in Long Island, so relatives in Jacksonville, Florida, volunteered to bury Zaner at another family plot.

Zaner, however, was buried without his favorite T-shirt as it was still being worn by the stranger in his original resting place.

“His favorite band was Led Zeppelin and he had his favorite shirt,” Megan Zaner told CBSNY. “I just don’t know how? What system was not in place? How is this not triple-checked?”

The sisters claim they have spent nearly $30,000 on the two burials for their father, and that despite the promise of a refund from the Star of David Chapel, the family has yet to receive a cent, according to their suit.

They also have not been told who was buried in their father’s original grave, and that the plaque for him is still up at the Mount Ararat Cemetery, the lawsuit states.

The Star of David Memorial Chapel funeral home appeared to blame the Fletcher facility for the error, saying in a statement: “We deeply regret any sorrow experienced by the family for the mistake made by the funeral home in South Carolina.

“After the family confirmed the identification of the deceased at the cemetery, the burial proceeded,” the statement said. “When the funeral home in South Carolina notified us of their mistake, we took swift and decisive action to contact the family and offer whatever services needed to lessen their grief.”

The West Babylon chapel, however, did not respond to the family’s allegations that it had ignored and shot down their repeated complaints about the grim mistake.

Neither the Star of David Chapel nor Fletcher Funeral Service immediately responded to The Post’s request for additional comment Thursday. The sisters’ attorney also did not respond.

Holzman told the Daily Beast that she continues to be haunted by the mix-up and that she is hesitant to attend her grandmother’s unveiling ceremony at the Long Island cemetery because she can still picture the impostor in her father’s casket.

“I haven’t slept much since that day. Every time I close my eyes, that’s what I see,” she said.