HOLLAND -- At just 15 months old, Marley Anne Orsted made people laugh when she danced to music.

Family members are clinging to those memories after a freak accident took the child's life Thursday while she visited her grandmother in Goshen, Ind.

Marley and her grandmother were alone when the grandmother had an epileptic seizure. She fell on top of the child and passed out, causing Marley's death, said the girl's mother, Stacey Orsted of Holland.

Orsted said authorities believe Marley suffocated because she was not otherwise injured.

The grandmother regained consciousness after about two hours and is still recovering, but is emotionally distraught, Orsted said.

Her husband and Marley's father, Brad Orsted, dropped off Marley in Goshen to spend a few days with his mother.

"Grandma wanted to show her off to friends and family," Orsted said. "She was just so proud of her."

Orsted said the grandmother lived with epilepsy for about 30 years and managed it well with medication, so the seizure was unexpected.

"It's been under very good control," she said.

The Orsteds talked with the grandmother not long before the accident happened.

"She said Marley was getting ready to play in the pool and have lunch," Orsted said.

She described her daughter as a child "born to love music," who danced constantly, enjoyed funk and anything with a dance beat.

She enjoyed spending time with her father, who recently took her fishing at the Holland pier.

"She made everyone happy," Stacey Orsted said.

Marley is survived by her parents and half-sisters, Mazzy and Chloe Chase.

Services are pending through Dykstra Life Story Funeral Homes in Holland.

E-mail John Tunison: jtunison@grpress.com