Son of man whose ashes were sent to Brooklyn, rocker denounces ‘outrageous’ mistake: ‘Shame on them’

He says the funeral home did the wrong thing, don’t call him!

The son of a trucker whose cremated remains were mysteriously sent to a Brooklyn indie rocker told The Post on Thursday that the funeral home that mailed them out made an “outrageous” and “heartbreaking” mistake.

“Shame on them,” Lamont Hall, 23, said after The Post tracked him down and talked about the strange mix-up. “Seeing his ashes lost is heartbreaking.”

“It’s really shocking how they handled it. They should have turned,” he said.

Hall said his father, Dwight Walter, was an affable trucker who loved vintage cars and died of an illness in 2017 at the age of 56.

At the time, he lived with his eldest son, Ronnie, in a studio apartment in East Williamsburg, where Hamilton Leithauser, lead singer of The Walkmen, received a box of a stranger’s cremated remains on Tuesday.

But when Leithauser called John’s funeral home in Brownsville to sort things out, the owner allegedly told him that the ashes were his problem – a move that Hall called wildly irresponsible and heartless.

“For a funeral home to turn the left cheek and say, ‘That’s not our problem,’ is outrageous,” he said. “It’s your job. You have to be professional about it.”

After his father’s death, Hall said that he and his brother chose the urn in honor of their favorite pop music, and that it “hurt” to know that the ashes were neglected.

“All these years I thought my father was safe and sound. Come to find out… he was sent away and neglected by a funeral home that said they would take care of him,” he said. “I have no words”.

“It brings [emotions] backup, he said. “These are the scars of 2017 that we have to reopen because the funeral home is just sloppy.”

John Funeral Home owner John Neman sent a worker to pick up Walter’s remains from Leithhauser after he received a call from The Post on Wednesday, and Hall now plans to pick up his father’s remains, he said.

Neman did not call back on Thursday.

The cardboard box containing the ashes was inexplicably labeled “Walter John” and dated October 17, 2017. The package was addressed to the “current occupant” of the house and was apparently intended for Walter’s eldest son Ronnie, who had moved years ago.

Neman told The Post on Wednesday that he sent Walter’s remains to the address because no one came for them, but he had not contacted Hall as of Thursday.

It was not immediately clear why the ashes were not raised.

“I thought everything went smoothly after the funeral. My brother took care of everything,” Hall said.

Hall was grateful that Leithauser tweeted about the creepy deliverywhich led to an article by The Post on Wednesday that ended up cracking the mystery and giving it some closure, he said.

“I would like to thank the guy who made this public, we need more kind people like this,” he said.

“We would still be in the dark thinking our father was safe while he was being transported like a package.”