Bertha B. Morley (June 21, 1878 – March 22, 1973) was an American educator and relief worker who headed schools and orphanages in Ottoman Turkey and Palestine, and rescued several hundred children from the Armenian genocide.

Bertha Belle Morley was born on June 21, 1878, in Mentor, Ohio, to Thomas Milton Morley, farmer and former Lieutenant in the 25th Ohio Independent Light Artillery Battery, and Lucy Mary Martindale, who taught during the Civil War for the American Missionary Association at the Grand Contaband Camp at Fort Monroe, Virginia.

[3] Her first teaching job was under the appointment of the American Missionary Association boarding school in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee, from 1905 to 1910.

Upon her return, she took refresher courses from the Hartford Seminary Kennedy School of Missions, and afterwards, from 1916 to 1917, attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

However, in March 1921, the Turkish government again forcibly closed Anatolia College; several of its Greek teachers and students were put on show trials and executed.

However, she was present in the city for the Burning of Smyrna in September 1922 at the end of the Greco-Turkish War, and witnessed the atrocities committed against the Greeks and Armenians there.

[9][10] Morley rescued a large number of children from the orphanage for Armenian Girls at the American Collegiate Institute in Smyrna.

She served as principal of the Girls' School until the invasion of Greece by Germany in World War II, at which point she returned to the United States.