Chelsea — A 55-year-old Chelsea woman died on Wednesday after she apparently became pinned under a tractor that rolled over as she was brushhogging the Edwards Road property where she and her husband built a new home.

Sky Seace was found underneath the overturned tractor shortly after 4 p.m. on Wednesday in Chelsea, according to a news release from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigating the accident.

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her husband, Bryon Seace, said in a Thursday phone interview that his wife was using the tractor to work on their property, which includes a hill.

“She was just out brushhogging the side of the driveway and the tractor rolled over on her,” Bryon Seace said. “I was at work, got home and found her under the tractor.”

Both of the Seaces are Navy veterans. Bryon Seace said his wife served for 15 years and then was medically discharged because of an eye disease.

Sky Seace was an Oregon native, and the couple was married 13 years ago.

The Seaces own the 147-acre property in Chelsea, which has a summer house near where she was brushhogging, and built their home higher on a hill, Bryon Seace said.

Bryon Seace grew up in the Upper Valley, graduated from Thetford Academy, served 21 years in the Navy and now works as a massage therapist in Lebanon.

Besides her husband, Sky Seace leaves behind a daughter in Texas. She had a rabbit in Chelsea, along with a couple of cats and a dog.

An autopsy was being performed in Burlington, and funeral arrangements were incomplete, her husband said.

News staff writer John Gregg can be reached at jgregg@vnews.com.