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© unknownWilful Donation: Queens widow Doris Schmitt in her will left $250,000 to "Rapture" guy Harold Camping.

The family of a lonely Queens widow is outraged after she left nearly a quarter-million dollars in her will to the bogus doomsday prophet who led his flock to falsely believe that the world would come to an end on May 21.

"If the money had gone to any other charity in the world my family would be fine with it," Schmitt's great-nephew, Chris Heuwetter, told The Post.

"But it's going to this kooky preacher and that's why we're upset."

Doris Schmitt, 78, died alone in her Rosedale home just weeks before May 21 -- the date that wacky radio preacher Harold Camping claimed the world would end.

But Schmitt shocked her family by willing nearly $250,000 of her $300,000 nest egg to Family Radio, the Christian media company that Camping, 89, co-founded in 1958.

The remaining $50,000, according to Schmitt's will, is to be divided between two nieces.

Schmitt, who had battled alcoholism for years, died alone in her apartment on May 2.

Her family believes that if Schmitt had lived to see that the world did not end on May 21, she would not have left her savings to the preacher.

"It's frustrating because we know there's nothing we can do about it -- this man [Camping] is going to get hundreds of thousands of dollars," Heuwetter said.

Schmitt's family came forward, Heuwetter said, because of commercials Camping airs during his radio sermons encouraging listeners to leave their entire estates to him when they die.

"Our whole motivation is to blow the lid off this guy," said Heuwetter. "It's very frustrating that there's no recourse."

Camping's bizarre prediction that the Rapture would take place on May 21 attracted worldwide attention and was based on elaborate calculations of numbers from the Bible.

Camping did not immediately return a request for comment.