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Can you provide more information such as race, expanded dates (day, month), death dates and places, date and place of marriage, and children's names?
A user of these boards has provided a page titled "Beginning genealogy - Posting Good Queries" at http://www.tedpack.org/goodpost.html. It is recommended reading. You can also find a guide for beginners at http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/index.html.
It is not known if this is your ancestor, but the Georgia Death Index prepared by the Georgia Vital Records Service (available at many Georgia libaries and repositories, and at Ancestry.com via suscription)lists a Wilson E. White, died August 15, 1984 in Putnam County, Georgia at age 70.
The actual death certificate is an important document in Georgia research. It contains fields for the informant for death certificate, usually a family member, to provide the names of the deceased's father, and maiden name of the mother, if known. It also has fields for the attending physician to provide the cause of death, and a field for the undertaker to indicate the place and date of interment. A copy of the certificate can be obtained by following the instruction at http://health.state.ga.us/programs/vitalrecords/death.asp.
Another equally important document for deaths after 1937 is the SS-5 Form, Application for a Social Security Number. It does contain the father's name and mother's maiden name provided by the applicant. For deaths occuring after 1963, the Social Security Administration provides data for a Social Security Death Index (SSDI) that gives the details needed to obtain a copy of the SS-5 Form. The SSDI covers those persons for whom a death benefit was paid and also for deaths where the Social Secuity Administration was notified. You can find a SSDI at http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi. The above Wilson White's name is in the index. When you locate the name by using the search feature, look on the right side to the Tools column and click the link "SS-5 Letter." The rest is self-explanatory.
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